Digital Creoles

Technology brings new challenges and opportunities:

Challenges

- Keyboards lacking Creole characters - Spell-checkers marking Creole as errors - Machine translation ignoring Creoles - Digital divides limiting access

Innovations

- Creole Wikipedia growing - Apps for learning Creole - Social media normalizing written Creole - Podcasts and YouTube in Creole

"Young people write Creole on WhatsApp who never learned it formally," observes Dr. Bernabé. "They're creating spontaneous writing systems. It's messy but vital."