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HAITIAN FRENCH CREOLE [2 records]

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Record 1 2002-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
DEF

A stable form of speech, derived from a pidgin, which has become the sole or principal language of a speech community.

OBS

Ex :Haitian creole(derived from French).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

Langue, essentiellement parlée, originellement de même type que les pidgins, devenue la langue unique ou la langue principale d'une communauté linguistique.

OBS

Ex: Créoles français d'Haïti, de la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe; créole anglais de la Jamaïque.

Spanish

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Record 2 1993-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

The creolized French spoken by Haitians living on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea. 90 percent or more of Haitian Creole vocabulary is French in origin while the remainder is mostly of African origin with a few Spanish words.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue maternelle de la plupart des habitants de Haïti.

Spanish

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