Portuguese-based creole languages used to distinguish locally born black people of African descent from those who had been brought from Africa as slaves. In time, however, this generic sense was lost, and the word "crioulo" or its derivatives (like "Creole" and its equivalents in other languages) became the name of several specific Upper Guinean communities and their languages: the Guinean people and their Kriol language, Cape Verdean people and their Kriolu language, all of which still today have very vigorous use, suppressing the importance of official standard Portuguese. The oldest Portuguese-based creole are the so-called "crioulos" of Upper Guinea, born around the Portuguese
Etymology of Assam "Ha-com", meaning "low or level country". He rejected the possibility that the name "Assam" ("Asam") could be derived from "Aham" (Ahom). Subsequent writers like P. C. Choudhury and R N Mosahary lend credence to this theory. So, if Ha-Com is the source of Sanskrit Asama, then it traces its origin from very early times, long before any Ahom invasion. Two different meanings of the Sanskrit word "Asama" have been used to explain the name: one meaning "uneven" (terrain) and the other "unequaled". The second theory Gait reported is that "Asama", meaning "unequal" or "peerless", was a name the local people