Professional Documents
Culture Documents
BY MELAM DANIATI
Atlantic Slave Trade
• What is creole language?
PIDGINS AND CREOLES
• The similarities
• The differences
Characteristic Features of Creole
• Racial Conflicts;
• Split sense of identity – in between Europe
and Africa
• Diverse and dinamic culture (Walcott on
music and language)
Creolisation process
Theories of origin
• 1) The baby-talk theory
• 2) Independent parallel development theory
• 3) Nautical jargon theory
• 4) Monogenetic/relexification theory
• 5) Universalist theory
Creole and Pidgin Map
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