Creole language

Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ayisyen) is a creole language spoken by about 8.5 million people in Haiti. There are a further 3.5 million speakers in a number of countries, including Canada, the USA, France, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, the Bahamas and other Caribbean countries. Haitian Creole is based largely on French, with influences from various West African languages, such as Wolof, Fon and Ewe. (...)

Being Haitian and not knowing how to read or write in Kreyol can be very frustrating. Admitting it and asking for help is sometimes worse, people have a tendency of making me feel guilty or incompetent for not knowing. In an effort to learn Kreyol before attempting to tackle French I found Eric and Beth

Krio, Sierra Leone’s English creole. The Gullahs’ English-based creole language is strikingly similar to Sierra Leone Krio and contains identical expressions as bigyai (greedy), pantap (on top of), ohltu (both), tif (steal), yeys (ear), and swit (delicious). The Gullah creole also contains several thousand words and personal names derived from African languages—and a large proportion of these (about 25%) are from languages spoken in Sierra Leone.

How to Say the Colors in Haitian Creole Beginner Lesson play_circle_filled What You Will Learn You will learn how to say the basic colors in Creole. You will learn how to say different color shades such as light blue and dark blue. How to Say the Basic Colors Keypoints 1. The basic colors such as red green and blue are straightforward and easy to learn. 2. If you know the colors in French, this is really is a review, because the vocabulary is the same. How to Say the Basic Colors When…

Have you ever been to Mauritius? If so, you might have been perplexed to find that even though guide books and fact sheets mention that English is the official language, most people do not speak it on the island! But it stays a fact that the average Mauritian can be fluent in a minimum of four languages at least. English is used for administrative and executive purposes mainly that too in writing. In actual fact, most Mauritians speak Kreol Morisyen as well as French and some Bhojpuri. The…

Mauritian Creole is a French-based Creole spoken mainly in Mauritius and Madagascar by about 1.3 million people.