Haitian Creole language: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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Encyclopedia: Haitian Creole language

Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen), often called simply Creole, is a language spoken in Haiti by about 8.5 million people (as of 2005), which is nearly the entire population. Via emigration, about 3.5 million speakers live in other countries, including Canada, the United States, and France, as well as many Caribbean nations, especially the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the Bahamas.

Haiti's official languages are French and Haitian Creole (Kreyòl Ayisyen). Nearly all Haitians speak the latter, a creole based primarily on French and African languages, with some Taíno, Portuguese and Spanish influences. Spanish is spoken near the border with the Dominican Republic and is increasingly being spoken in more westward areas as Dominican and Cuban trade influence Haitian affairs. Some Haitians also speak English.

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How to say "Haitian Creole language" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	ハイチ語
	(German)	Haitianische Sprache
	(Spanish)	Creole haitiano
	(French)	Créole haïtien
	(Italian)	Creolo haitiano

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Fon language

The Fon language is part of the Gbe dialect continuum and belongs to the Kwa sub-family of the Niger-Congo languages. Fon (along with Ewe and Anlo) is the subject of ongoing linguistic research into the African origins of the Haitian Creole language. See Gbe languages for more info...

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Anlo language

languages) is also the subject of ongoing research into the origin of Haitian creole languages (see Gbe... Anlo (IPA: Aŋlo) 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...

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