Languages that have developed from the mixing of two or more parent languages, where the combined new language has become the first language of a community. Creole languages often arise as the result of contact between the language of a dominant group (historically often a European colonizer) and that (or those) of a subordinate group (often the colonized people, or an enslaved population). For languages developed from two or more languages, but where grammar and vocabulary is simplified and the language used only in temporary contact situations, prefer "pidgins (language, general)."
