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Castelline, a speaker of Haitian Creole, 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 ...
Dézafi by Frankétienne is the first novel to be written and published in Haitian Creole. [1] Released in 1975, it has since been translated into both English and French [2] and received a number of awards including the Best Translated Book Award of 2019.
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Haitian French (French: français haïtien [fʁɑ̃sɛ aisjɛ̃]; Haitian Creole: fransè ayisyen) is the variety of French spoken in Haiti. [1] Haitian French is close to standard French. It should be distinguished from Haitian Creole , which is not mutually intelligible with French.
The Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [akademi kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]), known in French as the Académie du Créole Haïtien and in English as the Haitian Creole Academy, is the language regulator of Haitian Creole. [3] It is composed of up to 55 scholars under the leadership of Rogéda Dorcé Dorcil. [4] [5]
Michel Anne Frederic DeGraff [1] (born 1963) is a Haitian creolist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His scholarship focuses on Creole studies and the role of language and linguistics for decolonization and liberation. [2] He has advocated for the recognition of Haitian Creole as a full-fledged language. [2]
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A creole language, [2] [3] [4] or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period. [5]