Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Krio (kri) Alternative Names  Creole, Patois Family/Group  Creole, English-based Area  Africa General Data  • spoken in Sierra Leon • Krio and Jamaica Creole, and Krio and Sea Islands Creole may have some interintelligibility • linguistic influence from Yoruba (Niger-Congo, Atlantic Congo) Typological Information  • tone language Reduplication Form-Function  • full: pluralization, intensification, word class derivation Relationship Form-Function  one form - various functions Reduplication System  compounding and tonal reduplication in Krio may be related processes; they both undergo tonal change, and their semantics is unpredictable (Nylander 2003:137) Forms  Select Valueword   Functions  Select Valueintensification pluralization word class derivation Patterns  Select Valuefull Semantics  Select Valueintensity other plurality   Word Classes  Select Valueadjective/adverb — adjective/adverb adjective/adverb — noun verb — adjective/adverb verb — noun verb — verb   All Examples  ⊞ References    Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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