3 The data on the African languages comes from Bonvini (2008, pp. 30-31) for Brazil, but can be extended to the other Latin American countries.  
the colonizers. Beginning by considering the possibility of the transformation of African languages in America through the process of creolization, as it is usually understood by linguists, we are confronted with our first noteworthy fact. If we refer to the countries with Latin American languages as their official languages, leaving aside the Spanish-based Creole Papiamento (spoken in the Netherlands Antilles: Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire), there are only two languages recognized as Creole languages in Latin America: Haitian Creole and Palenquero, spoken in San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia.  
Palenquero is the only Spanish-based Creole spoken in South America, in San Basilio de Palenque, a city formed by runaway slaves of Bantu origin, located south-west of Cartagena.  
Haitian Creole, which has the largest number of speakers of all the Caribbean Creole languages, is spoken by almost the entire population of Haiti ( 8.5 million). It is the result of contact between French and the languages of West Africa (Fon, Eve, Wolof). It recently became a language of literacy and has official spelling conventions.  
It is disconcerting to note that certain regions, such as Cuba and Brazil, that received a greater number of black slaves, did not develop a Creole language, despite having a large African and Afrodescendent population, a necessary condition for triggering the creolization process.