Creole peoples were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations (or free men and women of color). They were also referred to as "criollos", a word from the Spanish language meaning "created" and used in the post-French governance period to distinguish the two groups of New Orleans area and down river Creoles. Both mixed race and European Creole groups share many traditions and language, but their socio-economic roots differed in the original period of Louisiana history. Actually, the French word Creole is derived from the Portuguese word "Crioulo", which described Spaniards born in the Americas as opposed to Spain.
Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish Portuguese (e.g., “"muié"” for "mulher", 'woman'), but it is much less widespread than in Spanish. The Portuguese letter ⟨ç⟩ (c-cedilha), based on a Visigothic form of the letter ⟨z⟩: "ꝣ". In Portuguese it is used before ⟨a⟩, ⟨o⟩, and ⟨u⟩ (including nasals), and never at the beginning or end of any word. It always represents the "soft "c"" sound, namely . In modern Spanish, it has been replaced by ⟨z⟩. Example: "calzado" (Sp.), "calçado" (Port.) 'footwear'. Various word endings are consistently different in the two languages. Both languages use diacritics to mark the stressed syllable of a word whenever it