Louisiana Creole

E40327
French-based creole language creole language natural language

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.

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All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Louisiana Creole canonical 10
Louisiana Creole French 2
Louisiana Creole culture 2

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 (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Antillean Creole → closelyRelatedTo → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau → associatedWith → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: New Orleans Creole community
French → influenced → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
French American → relatedGroup → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
subject surface form: French Americans
this entity surface form: Louisiana Creoles
Louisiana → recognizedLanguage → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
Louisiana Creole → hasAlternativeName → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Louisiana Creole French
Célestine Musson → hasCulturalBackground → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
Cloutierville, Louisiana, United States → languageHeritage → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
subject surface form: Cloutierville, Louisiana
Government of Louisiana → alsoUsesLanguageHistorically → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
Creole of color → languageTradition → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
Franco-Americans → notableSubgroup → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Louisiana Creoles of French descent
Who Dat Nation → relatedTo → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Louisiana Creole culture
Kouri-Vini → alsoKnownAs → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
Kouri-Vini → alsoKnownAs → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Louisiana Creole French
French Creole → includesLanguage → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
Odalie Misses Mass → associatedWith → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Louisiana Creole culture
Clifton Chenier → languageOfPerformance → Louisiana Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: French Louisiana Creole
Clifton Chenier → heritage → Louisiana Creole ⓘ