Haitian Creole, or simply Creole, is a French-based creole language with a Romance foundation and significant Atlantic-Congo structural influences, spoken by over 13 million people worldwide. It is one of the two official languages of Haiti, where it is the native language of the vast majority of the population, and is the most widely spoken creole language in the world.
Facts
ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2020 estimate. StatusWikipedia article on Haitian Creole: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Attested From (Year) Classification
Language Kind Official Status Connections
Descends From
Haitian Creole is a French-lexifier creole language, textbook-classified as descending from (colonial) French.
In Family
Source Wikipedia: Haitian Creole
Written In
Haitian Creole is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.
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Found In
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Sources
1. Glottolog: Haitian (Glottolog languoid hait1244)
GlottologEndangerment, AES statusQuote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Haitian Creole
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Haitian Creole (Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]), or simply Creole (kreyòl), is an Afro-francophone-based creole language with a Romance foundation and significant Atlantic-Congo structural influences.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
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Infobox: date
2020
Infobox, Native to
Haiti
French-based orthography
The first written text of Haitian Creole was composed in the French-lexicon in a poem called Lisette quitté la plaine in 1757 by Duvivier de la Mahautière, a white Creole planter.
Lead section
It is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it is the native language of the vast majority of the population. It is also the most widely spoken creole language in the world.
In Family: French-based Creole, Infobox: fam1
French Creole
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