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Louisiana Creole, French-based vernacular language that developed on the sugarcane plantations of what are now southwestern Louisiana (U.S.) and the Mississippi delta when those areas were French colonies. It had probably become relatively stabilized by the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, although it was later influenced by the creoles spoken by slaves brought to North America from Haiti and the Lesser Antilles by emigrating francophone planters. It is not clear what impact the nonstandard variety of French used by Cajuns—the descendants of refugees who fled Acadia (centred in Nova Scotia, Can.) in the 18th century—has had on Louisiana ...(100 of 299 words)

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