Haitian Creole
language spoken in Haiti
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Summary
Haitian Creole is a creole[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of creole entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,566 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Haiti[3]
- Instance of: natural language[4], language[5], modern language[6]
- Subclass of: Caribbean French Creole languages[7]
- Writing system: Latin script[8]
- Commons category: Haitian creole language[9]
- Wikimedia language code: ht[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Haitian Creole[11]
- Language regulatory body: Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen[12]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 9,600,000[13]
- Native label: Kreyòl ayisyen[14]
- Short name: гаитянский креольский[15]
- Different from: Haitian French[16]
- Indigenous to: Haiti[17]
- Has list: Liste Swadesh du créole haïtien[18]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/HAT[19], https://apics-online.info/contributions/49[20]
- Regulated by: Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen[21]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[22]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[23]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Haitian Creole-language films[24]
- Related category: Category:Haitian Creole pronunciation[25]
Why It Matters
Haitian Creole has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]