Countries
Haiti
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Haiti
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Central America, North America
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Cuba
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
French Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Bonjou
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Mèsi
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Kijan ou yé?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Bon nwit
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Bonswa
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Bon apre-midi
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Bon apre-midi
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Souple
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Dezole
  
آسف
  
Bye
Babay
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Mwen renmen w
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Eskize m
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Northern Haitian Creole
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Cap-Haitien
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Central Haitian Creole
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Port-au-Prince
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Southern Haitian Creole
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Cayes
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
9.60 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
9.60 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Kreyòl ayisyen
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
haïtien; créole haïtien
  
arabe
  
German Name
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[kɣejɔl]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Haitians
  
Arabs
  
Origin
17th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Haitian Creole
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ht
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hat
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
hat
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
hat
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hait1244
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
51-AAC-cb
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic