Creolistics, or Creology is the scientific study of creole languages and, as such, is a subfield of linguistics. Someone who engages in this study is called a creolist. Creolistics investigates the relative creoleness of languages suspected to be creoles, what calls "the cline of creoleness." No consensus exists among creolists as to whether the nature of creoleness is prototypical or merely evidence indicative of a set of recognizable phenomena seen in association with little inherent unity and… (More on Creolistics)