Haitian Creole

Creole (French lexicon)12 million totalLatin

RegionHaiti

FamilyCreole (French lexicon)

Speakers12 million total

ScriptLatin

TypeAlphabetic

About Haitian Creole

A full language born of contact between French and West African languages under slavery. Vocabulary is largely French while the grammar runs deep African. Most Haitians speak no other language. Co-official with French since 1987. The voice of the first Black republic.

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