Kriol
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The word Kriol could mean one of the following ethnic groups:
  • Belizean Kriol people
    Belizean Kriol people
    The Belizean Creoles, locally known as Kriols, are Creole descendants of English and Scottish log cutters, as well as Black African slaves brought to Belize. Other small minorities include Creoles and the Miskito from Nicaragua, Jamaicans, and other West Indians who assisted in the logging...

     or Kriols
  • Upper Guinea Kriol people


It could also mean any of the following Creole languages:
  • The English-based Australian Kriol language
    Australian Kriol language
    Kriol is an Australian creole language that developed initially in the region of Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales in the early days of White colonisation, and then moved west and north with White and Black stockmen and others...

  • The English-based Belizean Kriol language
    Belizean Kriol language
    Belizean Creole English, known as Kriol by its speakers, is an English-based creole language most closely related to Miskito Coastal Creole, Limón Coastal Creole, Colón Creole, San Andrés and Providencia Creole, Guyanese Creole, Jamaican Patois and English creoles of the Caribbean show similarity...

    , also called Belizean Creole
  • The English-based Colón Creole
    Colón Creole
    Colón Creole is a language spoken in Panama. Colón Creole is similar to varieties such as Limón Coastal Creole, Mískito Coastal Creole, and Belizean Creole . The number of speakers of Colón Creole is below 300,000 . Colón Creole does not have the status of an official language.-See also:*Bajan...

     (Kriol) spoken in Panama
  • The Portuguese-based Guinea-Bissau Creole

See also

  • Creole language
    Creole language
    A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable natural language developed from the mixing of parent languages; creoles differ from pidgins in that they have been nativized by children as their primary language, making them have features of natural languages that are normally missing from...

  • Creole peoples
    Creole peoples
    The term Creole and its cognates in other languages — such as crioulo, criollo, créole, kriolu, criol, kreyol, kreol, kriulo, kriol, krio, etc. — have been applied to people in different countries and epochs, with rather different meanings...

  • Criol
  • Krio (disambiguation)
  • Kreol (disambiguation)
  • Kriolu
  • Kreyol (disambiguation)
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