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.


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"
Antillean Creole closelyRelatedTo Louisiana Creole
Louisiana Creole hasAlternativeName Louisiana Creole
this entity surface form: "Louisiana Creole French"
Célestine Musson hasCulturalBackground Louisiana Creole
French influenced Louisiana Creole
subject surface form: "Cloutierville, Louisiana"
Louisiana recognizedLanguage Louisiana Creole
French American relatedGroup Louisiana Creole
subject surface form: "French Americans"
this entity surface form: "Louisiana Creoles"

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