These five languages didn't 'come' or evolve solely from English - rather they are all English-based creoles[0]. Many of them are grammatically quite different

These five languages didn't 'come' or evolve solely from English - rather they are all English-based creoles[0]. Many of them are grammatically quite different to English, but they've all had heavy influences from other languages as well. On the other hand, French, Romanian and Portuguese aren't Latin-based creoles - they're separate languages which have evolved from Latin (although you could make the argument that Portuguese and French are two ends of a dialect continuum[1]). Really, the relationship between Tok Pisin and English is very different to the relationship between French and Latin. English hasn't had the time and geographical spread to diverge into different languages that Latin has had. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-based_creole_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-based_creole_languages [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum#Romance_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum#Romance_lang...