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> it has absorbed loan words from Romance languages Isn't a Creole defined by its simplified grammar rather than by the sources of its vocabulary?

• esperent 2y ago
  No, that's a pidgin language. Creoles often develop out of pidgin languages but have full grammar and vocabularies.
• talideon 2y ago
  No, it's neither. A creole is defined by its origins: it's a complete language that has developed out of a pidgin.