Creole’s geographic concentration makes its loss irreversible unlike French’s.

Evidence

Not every disappearance, however, is equivalent. The fact that French-Ontarians are gradually ceasing to speak French will not cause the latter to vanish from the world panorama. Creole is not in the same situation because its elision in one single region would rnake the areas of its survival even more scarce. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 502