**** Creole language -- Holm's definition

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Holm defines a creole thus:

"A creole has a jargon or a pidgin in its ancestry; it is spoken natively by an entire speech community, often one whose ancestors were displaced geographically so that their ties with their original language and sociocultural identity were partly broken. Such social conditions were often the result of slavery."

Holm's definition is the more traditional, following Robert Hall's substratist definition.

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(Holm 1988: 6)