French-based creole languages

A French creole, or French-based creole language, is the creole language contact Linguistic communication with native speakers for which French is the lexifier. near often this lexifier is not innovative French but rather a 17th-century koiné of French from Paris, the French Atlantic harbors, & the nascent French colonies. By the eighteenth century, Creole French was the number one language of many people including those of European origin in the Caribbean. French-based creole languages today are spoken natively by millions of people worldwide, primarily in the Americas & on archipelagos throughout the Indian Ocean. This article also contains information on French pidgin languages, contact languages that lack native speakers.

These contact languages are not to be confused with modern non-creole French-language varieties spoken overseas in, for example, Canada mostly in Quebec, Ontario and the Maritime Provinces, the Canadian Prairie provinces, Louisiana, and northern New England Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Haitian Creole is the almost widely spoken French Creole language.