When i heard the people from Ghana speaking pidgin English i asked them what language they were speaking b/c i recognized some words here and there but i had no idea what they were saying..........they told me it was pidgin English............and i asked them what in the world is that.........and they told me it was English...........but there were no rules to it..........u just made stuff up as u went along..................and i asked them.........then how do u know what each other is saying.........and they told me that they just knew..............



A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable natural language that has developed from a pidgin, i.e. a simplified version of a language. Creoles differ from pidgins because creoles have been nativized by children as their primary language, with the result that they have features of natural languages that are normally missing from pidgins, which are not anyone's first language.
The precise number of creoles is not known, particularly as these are poorly attested, but about one hundred creole languages have arisen since 1500, predominantly based on European languages, due to the Age of Discovery and the Atlantic slave trade,^[1] though there are creoles based on other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, and Malay. The creole with the largest number of speakers is Haitian Creole, with about ten million native speakers.
The lexicon of a creole language is largely supplied by the parent languages, particularly that of the most dominant group in the social context of the creole's construction, though there are often clear phonetic and semantic shifts. On the other hand, the grammar often has original features that may differ substantially from those of the parent languages.