creolises
/ˈkriːəˌlaɪzɪz/
verb
- Third person singular present tense of creolize: to cause a language to become a creole (a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages).
- The prolonged contact between the colonizers and the local population creolises the original European tongue.
- The linguist explains how trade in the port city creolises the languages spoken there.
- In many Caribbean nations, the everyday speech creolises over generations as different ethnic groups interact.