The Haitian Creole Language is spoken by over 10 million people, both in Haiti and around the world in many communities of the diaspora . Often stereotyped as a bastardized form of French, there are many who are unaware of the richness of the language and the complex and expressive ways in which it is used.
Some basic facts about Haitian Creole:
•It is an analytic Language which means that separate words are used to indicate tense, plurality, possession, etc.
•Its structure and grammar are based on Fon gbè, a West African family of languages that is still spoken today in Benin, Togo and parts of Ghana and Nigeria.
•Its phonetics (Sounds) are based on French, so the majority of its vocabulary is French in origin. although It is important to note that some definitions may have shifted or changed, so French and Haitian Creole are not mutually intelligible.
•It has historically been an oral language, with a strong tradition of oral histories being passed on from generation to generation.
•Its orthography was only recently standardized, in 1979.
•There are nearly no silent letters in Haitian Creole. It is a highly phonetic language.
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