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Characteristics of Creole

Creole Characteristics of Creole English Consonants ü     In Creole English the th in the words thief and teeth would be pronounced like a t; ü     Loss of s at the beginning of words like strong, string, and split.   Morphology (word-endings) ü     Creole English shows much less dependence on morphology. Many of the grammatical inflections which characterize standard English are either not part of Creole English or are inconsistently used.                         Double marking for comparative and superlative are both natural in Creole English.      Big (more) bigger        (most) biggest              /           tall     (more) ...