Louisiana Creole
E40327
Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken primarily in Louisiana, shaped by African, French, Spanish, and Native American influences and historically associated with the region’s Creole communities.
Aliases (3)
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French-based creole language
→
creole language → natural language → |
| associatedWithEthnicGroup |
African Americans in Louisiana
→
Cajun →
surface form: "Cajuns"
Creoles of color → Creole of color →
surface form: "Louisiana Creoles"
|
| country |
United States of America
→
surface form: "United States"
|
| developedFrom | contact between French and African languages in colonial Louisiana → |
| developedInCentury | 18th century → |
| developedInContext |
French colonial empire
→
surface form: "French colonial Louisiana"
plantation slavery in Louisiana → |
| hasAlternativeName |
Kouri-Vini
→
LCF → Louisiana Creole →
surface form: "Louisiana Creole French"
|
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Creole cuisine
→
Creole identity in Louisiana → zydeco music → |
| hasEstimatedSpeakers | several thousand → |
| hasGlottocode | loui1242 → |
| hasInfluenceFrom |
English
→
French → Native American languages → Spanish → West African languages → |
| hasISO6393Code | lou → |
| hasLinguasphereCode | 51-AAC-cae → |
| hasNeighborLanguage |
Cajun
→
surface form: "Cajun French"
English in Louisiana → |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
community language classes
→
online learning resources → standardized orthography projects → |
| hasStatus | severely endangered language → |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
SVO word order
→
lack of grammatical gender agreement as in French → reduced inflectional morphology → use of preverbal tense-mood-aspect markers → |
| historicallySpokenIn | plantation regions of southern Louisiana → |
| isDistinctFrom |
Louisiana French
→
surface form: "Cajun French"
French →
surface form: "Standard French"
|
| isEndangered | true → |
| languageFamily | French-based creole → |
| primaryLexifierLanguage | French → |
| region | Louisiana → |
| spokenIn |
California, United States
→
surface form: "California"
Chicago, Illinois, United States →
surface form: "Chicago"
Louisiana → New Orleans → Texas → |
| usedInDomain |
music
→
oral tradition → religious practice → storytelling → |
| writingSystem | Latin script → |
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "New Orleans Creole community"
this entity surface form: "Louisiana Creole French"
subject surface form: "Cloutierville, Louisiana"
subject surface form: "French Americans"
this entity surface form: "Louisiana Creoles"