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A Haitian Creole speaker, recorded in the United States. Haitian Creole (/ ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l /; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]; [6] [7] French: créole haïtien, [kʁe.ɔl a.i.sjɛ̃]), or simply Creole (Haitian Creole: kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti ...
The official languages of Haiti are French and Haitian Creole. Traditionally, the two languages served different functions, with Haitian Creole the informal everyday language of all the people, regardless of social class, and French the language of formal situations: schools, newspapers, the law and the courts, and official documents and decrees.
Haitian Creole, [368] locally called Kreyòl, [369] has recently undergone standardization and is spoken by virtually the entire population. [370] One of the French-based creole languages, Haitian Creole has a vocabulary
Haitian language may refer to: . Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen), a French-based creole language native to Haiti; Haitian French, the variety of French spoken in Haiti; Taíno language, an extinct indigenous language spoken in Haiti (or Hayti), the rest of the Greater Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago; previously coined the Haitian language (or Haytian language)
A creole language is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages. Unlike a pidgin , a simplified form that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups, a creole language is a complete language, used in a community and acquired by children as their native language .
Haitian singers by language (1 C) H. Haitian Creole (3 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Languages of Haiti" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Haitian artist Paul Beaubrun, right, closes out Haiti’s Pap Jazz Festival in January 2023 in the northern city of Cap-Haitien. Beaubrun’s parents are members of the Grammy-nominated band ...
Haiti was one of many Caribbean islands inhabited by the Taíno natives, speakers of an Arawakan language called Taíno.The barbecue originated in Haiti.The word 'barbecue' derives from the word barabicu, found in the language of the Taíno people of the Caribbean [3] and entered European languages in the form barbacoa.