The Portuguese word ''crioulo'' (''crioula'', ''crioulos'', ''crioulas'') may refer to:
* In Brazil, a
person of African ancestry
* A
creole language
A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable form of contact language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fl ...
, especially one of the
Portuguese-based creole languages
Portuguese creoles () are creole languages which have Portuguese as their substantial lexifier. The most widely-spoken creoles influenced by Portuguese are Cape Verdean Creole, Guinea-Bissau Creole and Papiamento.
Origins
Portuguese oversea ...
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Criollo horse
The Criollo (in Spanish), or Crioulo (in Portuguese), is the native horse of the Pampas (a natural region between Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, in South America) with a reputation for long-distance endurance linked to a low basal metabolism. ...
, also known as a crioulo horse.
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Crioulo cattle
The Portuguese word ''crioulo'' (''crioula'', ''crioulos'', ''crioulas'') may refer to:
* In Brazil, a person of African ancestry
* A creole language, especially one of the Portuguese-based creole languages
* Criollo horse
The Criollo (in Sp ...
, Brazilian Criollo cattle breeds
See also
*
Creole (disambiguation)
Creole may refer to:
Anthropology
*Alaskan Creole people, people descended from the inhabitants of colonial Alaska before it became a part of the United States during the period of Russian rule
* Creole peoples, ethnic groups which originated ...
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Criollo (disambiguation)
Criollo or criolla (Spanish for creole) may refer to:
People
* Criollo people, a social class in the Spanish colonial system.
Animals
* Criollo duck, a species of duck native to Central and South America.
* Criollo cattle, a group of cattle bre ...
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