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Where is Louisiana Creole French spoken?

Louisiana Creole French (Kouri-Vini) is an Indo-European language, spoken in the United States. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Louisiana Creole French is spoken

Louisiana Creole French is spoken in one country: the United States.

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United States

Louisiana Creole French has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Louisiana Creole French?

Wikidata gives about 10,000 first-language speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 2010). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Moribund. Glottolog lists it as moribund: the youngest speakers are middle-aged or older, and children are no longer learning it.

Where Louisiana Creole French sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Louisiana Creole French as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Italic
  4. Latino-Faliscan
  5. Latinic
  6. Imperial Latin
  7. Romance
  8. Italo-Western Romance
  9. Western Romance
  10. Shifted Western Romance
  11. Northwestern Shifted Romance
  12. Gallo-Rhaetian
  13. Oil
  14. Central Oil
  15. Macro-French
  16. Circum-Caribbean French
  17. Louisiana Creole French

Related languages

Other languages in the Circum-Caribbean French group:

More about Louisiana Creole French

Codes: ISO 639-3 lou, Glottolog loui1240. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Louisiana Creole French is a Romance language, descended from Latin. Latin’s footprint: the Roman Empire at its height → Latin spread along Roman roads →

Questions about Louisiana Creole French

Where is Louisiana Creole French spoken?

Louisiana Creole French is spoken in the United States. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Louisiana Creole French?

Wikidata gives about 10,000 first-language speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 2010). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Louisiana Creole French in?

Glottolog places Louisiana Creole French in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Northwestern Shifted Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oil, Central Oil, Macro-French and Circum-Caribbean French.

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