Editing Spanish-based creole languages (section)

===Palenquero===
[[File:Palenquero1.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb|right|Palenquero]]

'''[[Palenquero]]''' (also [[Palenque]]) is a Spanish-based creole spoken in [[Colombia]].

The ethnic group which speaks this creole consisted only of 2,500 people in 1989.

It is spoken in [[Colombia]], in the village of [[San Basilio de Palenque]] which is south and east of [[Cartagena, Colombia|Cartagena]], and in some neighborhoods of [[Barranquilla]].

The village was founded by fugitive slaves ([[maroon (slavery)|Maroon]]s) and [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]]. Since many slaves had been only slightly exposed to contact with European people, the ''palenqueros'' spoke creole languages derived from Spanish and from their ancestral African languages.

Spanish speakers are unable to understand Palenquero. There is some influence from the [[Kongo language]] of the [[Democratic Republic of Congo]]. In 1998, only 10% of the population younger than 25 spoke Palenquero. It is most commonly spoken by the elderly.

For more information see the [[Ethnologue|Ethnologue Report]] on Palenquero.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pln |title=Palenquero |publisher=Ethnologue |date=1999-02-19 |access-date=2015-10-08}}</ref>