It’s not easy for a pidgin to survive and evolve into a creole. It takes strength to raise children in a second language, especially in one you helped create. Once they have children, the children learn the creole language as their native tongue. It evolves so that they can share complex conversations with one another-about loves, fears, hopes, future plans, and so on. Over time, the language naturally gets richer. Neither knows the language of the other, but they have a pidgin language in common.

So, a creole is created when people from these two different languages come together for more than just business … when they create a life together, a community. They’re out there, trading and working, and to communicate, they don’t need anything fancy: just a few simple sentences, numbers, and other things that describe their surroundings or the immediate future. They don’t speak the same language, so they create one. Two groups of people who speak different languages come together for business or labor. (The terms creole and pidgin, it is important to note, have been historically applied in various ways and their nature has long been debated among linguists.) But really, linguists describe a creole as a complex language, evolving from a pidgin. In a nutshell, a little blood, sweat, and tears makes a creole.

Hungry for more? Read on to learn more about what a creole is and how it defines a certain population in Louisiana. Mardi Gras is just a sprinkling of the rich Louisiana Creole culture. This is world-famous New Orleans at Mardi Gras. Smells waft in with the sound: from street-side vendors, gumbo, jambalaya, and cajun and creole spices you can taste in the air.

The crowd, as diverse as the Black, Native, and European people who’ve called the area home for centuries. Drums, brass, and strings clash against the cacophonyof song and dance.

Pidgin creole