Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. language-related concepts
5. [languages and writing systems]
6. [languages and writing systems by general type]
7. languages (established systems of communication)

Anotations

Scope note:

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)."