Creole is not a single language but a label for a family of natural languages that grew out of contact between colonial European languages and the languages of enslaved and colonised peoples. Haitian Creole, with an estimated 10 million or more speakers, is the best known; it draws most of its vocabulary from French but has its own grammar and is an official language of Haiti alongside French. Other examples include Mauritian and Seychellois Creole, also French-based, and English-based creoles such as Jamaican Patois and Sierra Leone's Krio. Each creole is a full language in its own right, with consistent rules, not a broken version of anything. In Britain the label most often refers to Haitian Creole, though the term covers many distinct and mutually unintelligible languages.
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