verb
- developing into or causing to become a creole language through contact between different languages
- adopting or blending cultural elements from different ethnic or cultural groups
Usage: linguistics
Usage: cultural studies
Examples
- The pidgin language is creolizing as children learn it as their native tongue.
- Scholars study how languages are creolizing in multicultural urban areas.
- The music scene is creolizing, blending African, European, and indigenous influences.
- Immigration patterns are creolizing the local cuisine.
- The community’s traditions are creolizing through contact with neighboring cultures.
- Linguists observed the dialect creolizing over several generations.