The term Creole refers to a number of distinct ethnic groups in various countries, including: Louisiana Creole people, Criollo people (a social caste in Spanish overseas colonies), Belizean Kriol people, Sierra Leone Creole people, Krio Dayak people (an ethnic group in West Kalimantan, Indonesia), Mauritian Creole people, Acadiana Prejean creole, and certain individuals born in the Americas of European parentage. Creole may also refer to a Creole language, a stable, full-fledged language that originated from a pidgin or combination of other languages.