1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Haiti
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Haiti
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Central America, North America
1.6 Minority Language
Cuba
1.7 Regulated By
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
1.8 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".
1.9 Similar To
French Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Bonjou
3.2 Thank You
Mèsi
3.3 How Are You?
Kijan ou yé?
3.4 Good Night
Bon nwit
3.5 Good Evening
Bonswa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Bon apre-midi
3.7 Good Morning
Bon apre-midi
3.8 Please
Souple
3.9 Sorry
Dezole
3.10 Bye
Babay
3.11 I Love You
Mwen renmen w
3.12 Excuse Me
Eskize m
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Haitian Creole
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Cap-Haitien
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Haitian Creole
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Port-au-Prince
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Haitian Creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cayes
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
9.60 million
Rank: 54 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.15 %
Rank: 49 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
9.60 million
Rank: 46 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Kreyòl ayisyen
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
5.3.4 French Name
haïtien; créole haïtien
5.3.5 German Name
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
5.4 Pronunciation
[kɣejɔl]
5.5 Ethnicity
Haitians
6 History
6.1 Origin
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Haitian Creole
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ht
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
hat
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
hat
7.3 ISO 639 3
hat
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
hait1244
7.6 Linguasphere
51-AAC-cb
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available