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What is Haitian Creole and where is it spoken?

Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ayisyen) is a French-lexified creole with about 12 million speakers, the majority in Haiti where it has been co-official with French since 1987. It emerged in the 17th–18th centuries on Saint-Domingue plantations, blending colonial French vocabulary with West African (largely Fongbe and Wolof) grammar and other influences from Portuguese, Spanish and Taino.

How does Haitian Creole grammar differ from French?

Although ~85% of Haitian Creole vocabulary comes from French, the grammar is very different. Verbs are invariable; tense and aspect are marked with preverbal particles (te past, ap progressive, pral future, ta conditional). Definite articles come after the noun (liv la 'the book'). The IPN spelling adopted in 1979 is fully phonemic — one letter per sound.