Definition of "creolization" []

• The process of a pidgin rapidly expanding its vocabulary and grammatical rules, ultimately becoming a creole. (noun)
• Of Indo-Trinidadians, the process of assimilation into the dominant Creole culture. (noun)

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• "It is also possible that a diasporic population will display "creolization" -- the incorporation of new cultural elements into the mix of its practices, values, and meanings."
• "The point in question is in my essay on "creolization" in the Encyclopedia, which is limited to discussing the language and culture of the Gullah-speaking people of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts."
• "If you think about the natural evolution of, for example, a “pidgin” language which then undergoes a process of “creolization” as its role slowly changes from a “lingua franca” used by speakers of two communities to the main vehicle of communication amongst a community of speakers, then you may see that this flattening-out so to speak of cultural peculiarities follows naturally from the participation of speakers from different cultures in its development."