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Haitian Creole (Kreyòl or Ayisyan) is a creole language based on the French language. It is spoken in Haiti by about 7.5 million people (as of 1998), which is nearly the whole population. Via immigration, several hundred thousand speakers live in other countries, including Canada, the United States and France, as well as many Caribbean nations.

There are linguistic influences from several West African languages, namely from Wolof, and some Gbe languages, notably Fon and Ewe/ Anlo-EweAnlo (IPA: Anlo) is a dialect of the Ewe language. It is, like all other Gbe languages, a tonal language. No recent estimate of number of speakers is available; the 1960 Ghanian Census mentions a number of 230 000 speakers according to Clements (1977).. There are two dialectsA dialect is a variant, or variety, of a language spoken in a certain geographical area. The number of speakers, and the area itself, can be of arbitrary size. It follows that a dialect for a larger area can contain plenty of (sub-) dialects, which in tur: Fablas and Plateau Haitian Creole .

Since 19611961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first "upside-down" year i. one that looked the same upside down since 1881, and the last until 6009. Events January January 1 The farthing coin, used since the 13th century, cease, Haitian Creole has been recognized as an official language. Its usage in literature is small but growing. Many speakers are bilingual and speak both Haitian Creole and French, but Creole has a lower social status than French in the minds of some. Many educators, writers and activists have emphasized pride and written literacy in Creole since the 1980s. There are newspapers, radio and television programs in this language.

It is not to be confused with Haitian Vodoun Culture Language .

1 Simple sample phrases

2 A sample of the vocabulary

The letters in parentheses indicate the portion of the definite article in French from which the Creole word is derived in part.

Creole - French - English

3 External link


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