[1] It was spoken by 1,500,000 people as a second language at the 1984 census, which accounted for about 70% of the population at the time.
It is historically and linguistically related to Merico, a creole spoken in Liberia, but it is grammatically distinct from it.
As such, rather than being a pidgin wholly distinct from English, it is a range of varieties that extend from the highly pidginized to one that shows many similarities to English as spoken elsewhere in West Africa.
Kreyol is spoken mostly as an intertribal lingua franca in the interior of Liberia.
[2] Kreyol uses no for negation, bi (be) as the copula, fɔ for "to" in verbal infinitives.