Creolistics

Under Kreolistik is defined as the branch of linguistics that deals with the pidgins and creoles, beyond the concept of genetic linguistic relationship.

As the founder of Kreolistik the German linguist Hugo Schuchardt, the Dutchman Dirk Christiaan Hesseling and the Portuguese Francisco A. Coelho apply. The Kreolistik involves the scientific study of the Creole languages ​​created from a language contact situation and the culture of the countries where these languages ​​are spoken or spoken. Creole languages ​​have been developed especially after the colonial expansion of European overseas countries and are usually a result of contact between speakers of one or more European-based languages ​​( English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch ) with indigenous languages ​​in Africa, Asia and America. Today there are about 13 to 14 million native speakers of creole languages ​​worldwide. The main kreolophonen countries are Haiti, Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion, Cape Verde, Guinea- Bissau, São Tomé and Principe, the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname and Sierra Leone. In a further understanding of Kreolistik the language varieties of African-American speakers in the English-, Spanish-, French-and Portuguese-speaking countries in the Americas and Africa as well as in the Republic of South Africa ( Afrikaans ) are included (about 130 million ).

• Sociolinguistics
• Philology
• Cultural Studies
• Pidgin or creole