A creole is a pidgin language adopted by natives of a region in place or addition to their native language and incorporating many words and phrases. If it gets used enough, it becomes a lingua franca: Hindi/Urdu, Bahasa and Swahili are successful lingua francas (as is English, which I'm sure began life as a creole of Low German, with Latin and Celtic incursions). Apparently Facebook doesn't support Arabic script so Arabic speakers utilize the English alphabet to write Arabic. Technically not a creole or lingua franca, more of a compu-franca. It's kinda cool. Some obscenities on the site (they don't like a band that doesn't like Islam).
Chekitout.
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