A creole is a natural language that develops through sustained contact among speakers of different languages and becomes the first language of a speech community. In a commonly used sociolinguistic account, creole languages emerge when a contact language, often a pidgin, becomes nativized and develops into a language used as the community’s native language ^[1]. The classification of a language as a creole is based substantially on its sociohistorical development rather than on a single set of structural features, since creole languages possess systematic grammatical and phonological structures and cannot be defined solely by linguistic simplicity or complexity ^[1][2]. A creole is therefore distinct from a pidgin, which is conventionally characterized by its initial function as a contact language that is not the native language of a speech community, although the processes and pathways through which creoles emerge vary across linguistic contexts ^[1].