Languages of Haiti
See language map.[See also SIL publications on the languages of Haiti.]
Republic of Haiti, République d’Haiti. 9,296,000. National or official languages: Haitian, French. Literacy rate: 23%–33%. Blind population: 60,000. Deaf population: 93,549. Deaf institutions: 4. The number of individual languages listed for Haiti is 3. Of those, 2 are living languages and 1 is a second language without mother-tongue speakers.
| French | [fra]
600 in Haiti (2004).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French
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| Haitian | [hat]
6,960,000 in Haiti (2001). Population total all countries: 7,701,640. Widespread. Also in Bahamas, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States.
Alternate names: Creole, Haitian Creole.
Dialects: Fablas, Plateau Haitian Creole. Linguistic influences from Wolof [wol] (Benjamin 1956), Fon [fon], and Éwé [ewe] (C. Lefebvre) of West Africa.
Classification: Creole, French based
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| Haitian Vodoun Culture Language | [hvc]
Alternate names: Langaj, Langay.
Classification: Unclassified
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