Dutch-based creole languages

These creoles usually developed from Dutch-based pidgins or through language mixing where Dutch served as a major influence.

Most Dutch-based creoles originated in Dutch colonies in the Americas and Southeast Asia, after the 17th century expansion of Dutch maritime trade network and naval power.

The extinction has generally been attributed to a wilful cultural and generational language shift towards standard Dutch or the majority language of the area with each successive generation.

Afrikaans is considered to be a daughter language of Dutch[1][2] and it, by contrast, is vibrant and has completely displaced Dutch in southern Africa, primarily South Africa and Namibia.

Though not a majority-held position, it is considered by some linguists to be a creole because of its simplified grammar relative to Dutch.