Creole peoples Creole peoples Creole people are ethnic groups which originated during the colonial-era from racial mixing between Europeans and non-European peoples, known as creolisation. These groups are typically descended from White Western European colonial settlers, West African slaves, Haitians and indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Creole peoples vary widely in ethnic background and mixture, and many have since developed distinct ethnic identities. The development of creole languages is attributed to, but independent of, the emergence of creole ethnic identities. The English word "creole" derives from the French "créole", which in turn came from Portuguese "crioulo", a diminutive of
Panicker romanising Malayalam without diacritic marks, the name would be "Panikkar". However, Panikker, Panicker, Panickar, Paniker, Panikar, Panniker, and Pannikavannar, and other variants are found. Panicker Panicker (sometimes Panikkar) is an Indian title or last name. The "Dravidian Etymological Dictionary", entry number 3884, considers the word Panikkan as a word of Dravidian etymology, deriving from the Dravidian root word "Pani", meaning service, work etc. Panikkan could mean a person who commands as well as one who serves. The "DED" traces cognates of the word "Panikkan" in twelve Dravidian languages, besides Malayalam. The Portuguese traveller Duarte Barbosa said that "They are the