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	Haitian Creole language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ayisyen) is a creole language based on the French language.
		Many speakers are bilingual and speak both Haitian Creole and French, but Creole has a lower social status than French in the minds of some.
		It is not to be confused with Haitian Vodoun Culture Language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haitian_Creole (408 words)

	Creole language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Shuwa Arabic-based creole spoken in 23 villages of the Chari-Baguirmi Prefecture in southwestern Chad; the substrate language was Berakou.
		Gullah is an English-based creole spoken in the Sea Islands and the adjacent coastal regions of South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida.
		This Creole was spoken by the groups of early immigrants from the Western Isles of Scotland (Hebrides) to the Southern states of the USA (The Carolinas, Alabama, Northern Mississippi and Tennessee).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Creole_language (1087 words)

	Creole Language in Haiti
		"Haitian creole is primarily spoken in the Caribbean on the western part of the island of Hispaniola and has the largest number of speakers of all the Caribbean creoles –around 6 million." (1) The majority of people, if not all are speakers of Creole.
		Although within the country the language issue is viewed as a divisive force, for Haitians within a foreign place the language can warm the heart because it is an almost unquestionable indication that this is a brother or sister from the country which is near and dear to their hearts.
		She believes it is necessary to have Creole in the schools because as in her case and in many cases Creole is the first language for children.
	www.saxakali.com /caribbean/LanahL.htm (3862 words)

	Haitian Creole Translation Services - Translators English/Creole
		Haitian Creole to English Translations - Experienced bi-lingual translators and proofreaders with extensive experience and a confirmed ability to translate effectively from the Haitian Creole language.
		Haitian Creole is derived from French and developed out the socio-historical situation of 17th and 18th century Haiti where a simplified version of French was employed as a language of wider communication between masters and slaves.
		The Haitian Creole language boasts many influences from West African languages, but it's basic structure is of French origin.
	www.greentranslations.com /creole-translation.html (293 words)

	AHAD - What is Haitian Creole?
		Creoles are believed to be pidgins that have expanded both their linguistic structures and their communicative functions and have become the native language of an entire speech community.
		Bilingual Haitian speakers have very often shifted to French or English, depending upon the level of formality of a topic or the extent of familiarity with the interlocutor, but more and more these parameters are exploding and HC has penetrated all aspects and dimensions of Haitian expression.
		The Indian Ocean Creoles are comprised of the Creoles spoken in Mauritius, Seychelles, and Réunion.
	www.ahadonline.org /eLibrary/creoleconnection/Number20/haitiancreole.htm (3135 words)

	OHCHR: Haitian Creole (Kreyol) - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Most linguists agree that a Creole is a Pidgin whose lexicon and grammar have been expanded or nativized.
		Haitian is one of the most widely spoken Creoles on earth, drawing most of its lexicon from French with linguistic influences from Wolof.
		Haitian Creole was granted legal and educational status in 1961, but it still has a lower social status than Standard French (the other official language of Haiti).
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/hat.htm (1581 words)

	Haitian Creole Translation - Translate Haitian Creole Language Translator
		LeoSam Translations's Haitian Creole translation teams are professional linguists performing translation from English to Haitian Creole and Haitian Creole to English for a variety of documents in various industries including:
		Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba.
		He alleges he was kidnapped from Haiti by a group of Haitians and unidentified Americans; the US alleges that he requested rescue.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/haitiancreole.shtml (660 words)

	Creole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		As to making creole the primary language of the country and have French and English become secondary languages, I think that it would be a grave mistake for several reasons: 1) Haiti is a tiny country entirely and increasingly dependent on commerce with the outside world for its material survival.
		The Creole Institute at Indiana University is recognized as the only center in the United States that is equipped to deal in depth with linguistic and related educational issues in Haiti.
		I do think Haitians should teach their children to be proud of their language, but they should learn to speak another language, because Creole it is not an universal language, that is one of the problem most Haitian people are confronting when they come to Dominican Republic.
	www.haitiglobalvillage.com /sd-kreyol/Creole.htm (6271 words)

	Haitians: Their History and Culture
		It is difficult to give a standard description of the Haitian Creole phonological system; linguists do not agree on a phonological analysis of Haitian Creole, probably because there is so much regional variation in pronunciation.
		Haitian Creole expresses the concepts of gender and plural by using specific words.
		The lexicon of Haitian Creole is derived primarily (90%) from French.
	www.culturalorientation.net /haiti/hcreole.html (836 words)

	Paul Laraque, Introducing Open Gate,; An anthology of Haitian creole poetry
		The Haitian military and civilian terrorists formed in the United States had already overthrown the freely elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his popular government.
		Thieves and murderers of Haitian descent were expelled from U.S. jails to Haiti, where they transferred the masses’ wrath from the political arena to the social field.
		In a country dominated by men like Haiti, she is the symbol of the struggle against the triple discrimination inflicted on women on the basis of sex, color, and class.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/43a/537.html (622 words)

	Common Haitian Creole (Kreyol) Phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Creole has only been recognized as the official language of Haiti in the last few years.
		Therefore, there are many different ways in which the Haitians write and spell Creole words.
		There are nasal sounds in Creole just as there are nasal sounds in French, which are pronounced partially through the nose, but without the "n" itself pronounced (a rare exception to the general pronunciation rule of pronouncing every letter).
	www.travelinghaiti.com /haitian_kreyol.asp (315 words)

	Haitian Creole Orthography Issues Facing Software Developers
		She was NEVER given such responsibility by the Haitian Bible Society, NOR was her quest funded by the Bible Society or any other organization, NOR are the orthographically converted texts -- which can be accessed from this page -- to be construed to be "an official update" of the Haitian Creole Bible.
		And since Haitian Creole speakers are writing in a language which is mainly a spoken language, this has multiplied the possibility of inconsistency on such important writing issues.
		Once Marilyn Mason had applied her orthography converting solution to the Haitian Creole Bible (which she herself had typed into her computer), she knew that the next barrier to break would be to apply that same orthography converting solution to texts she herself had NOT typed.
	hometown.aol.com /mit2haiti/Orthography.htm (1246 words)

	LING L320 2919 Haitian Creole II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Students in Second semester Haitian Creole finish the last chapters of the Ann pale kreyòl textbook and read three other Creole texts.
		To further accomplish this, readings from Creole journalism are used, a module is reserved for water purification techniques, AIDS prevention.
		Students from all disciplines are encouraged to enroll in Haitian Creole.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr02/ling/ling_l320_2919.html (266 words)

	Haitian Studies Program
		To give participants an additional immersion in the Haitian speaking environment they will have an opportunity to participate, on a voluntary basis, in field work in different Haitian community based organizations and agencies outside the classroom time.
		The program is designed to meet the needs of those who plan to conduct research in Haiti or in the Haitian diaspora, or who work in a volunteer or professional capacity either in Haiti or with Haitians abroad.
		The non-credit course is geared towards the native or advanced Creole language speaker who wishes to be certified as a translator or as a court interpreter.
	site.www.umb.edu /forum/1/Haitian_Studies/res/web_pages/creole.html (678 words)

	Discover Haiti: Culture Page
		That Creole has been altered by too many foreign influences and is replete with French and English expressions.
		We are rather referring to a somewhat purer version of the language, one that is spoken in the still mostly unadulterated rural Haiti, or to some degree by members of the older generations.
		That beautiful form of expression is menaced and may be bound to disappear though, through the effects of urbanization and foreign culture and as the younger generations are turning their backs on that way of speaking.
	www.discoverhaiti.com /culture_proverbs1.htm (970 words)

	An Annotated Bibliography On Haitian Creole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Your suggestions on Creole deserve to be included in the curriculum of all important discussions dealing with the subject.
		The research of this Haitian linguist, who left for the United States when he was young, touches on different aspects of the Kreyòl language and culture.
		One of his ongoing goals is to provide Haitian Creole dictionaries, grammars and abundant texts for bilingual education teachers.
	www.palli.ch /~kapeskreyol/bibliographie/haiti.html (2711 words)

	Les œuvres complètes d' Emmanuel W. VEDRINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		And we Haitians who care about the community and the growing generation, we see that the last chance left for us, to liberate ourselves and other Haitians, is “education.” We are often told that education is free, that everyone has a right to have an education.
		Gramè Kreyòl Védrine (Védrine's grammar of Haitian Creole).
		The discussion about some Haitian proverbs or idioms and trying to phrase them differently to make their sense clear or giving corresponding situations were very useful exercises.
	www.palli.ch /~kapeskreyol/bibliographie/vedrine.html (8461 words)

	H-Net Review: Maude Adjarian on Open Gate: An Anthology of Haitian Creole Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Haitian Creole section of Prudent's text, edited by critic, Maximilien Laroche, presents poems written between the early 1950s and the early 1980s by the first generation of writers to use Creole as the primary language of expression.
		is a celebration of Haitian Creole poetry written in the last 50 years, it is also one dedicated to honoring the memory of Felix Morrisseau-Leroy, the father of the Creole literature in Haiti, who died in 1998.
		Whether these pieces speak of Haitian life, spirituality and culture; of love and desire; of the violence and losses suffered by the people under the oppressive political regimes that have been part of Haitian history, they all represent a continuation of the Morriseau-Leroy's initial breakthrough.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=110821013617301 (2077 words)

	Booklist Haitian Creole Children's Materials No. 27 - Newark Public Library
		Haitian French Creole story about a dog and a cat in which the cat outsmarts the dog.
		A tale from Haitian folklore in Haitian French Creole amd French languages.
		A tale from Haitian folklore in Haitian French Creole and French languages.
	www.npl.org /pages/Multimac/Booklist/no27/hccm.html (276 words)

	Haitian Creole struggles for recognition and respect
		Creole is a mere local vernacular, a sort of broken French she dismisses as
		Much of Haitian Creole is comprised of words whose origins are clearly
		Bajeux agrees that perhaps 80 percent of the Haitian Creole vocabulary
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /haiti/creole.htm (513 words)

	French (and Haitian Creole) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Haitian Creole does not distinguish past tense and past perfect, and does not change the verb to indicate past tense.
		In French, definite article is used with singular or uncountable noun to state a generalization: *The photography is an art.
		In Haitian Creole, no article is used for a generalization with a singular noun: *Bird can fly.
	college.hmco.com /english/raimes/frames/eslcentr/french.htm (307 words)

	Haitian Creole translation by Creole translator - Immigration documents
		For legal texts in Haitian Creole, our translators strictly follow the format, and convey the meaning intended.
		For more linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and history of Haitian Creole language UCLA Language Materials Project has a good linguistics and interlingual background information on Haitian Creole.
		We specialize in translating your documents (in Haitian Creole language) for the U.S. Immigration.
	www.online-languagetranslators.com /haitian_creole.htm (784 words)

	WORDNET Foreign Language Translation Service - Haitian Creole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Haitian Creole, which is also called French Creole, is spoken in Haiti.
		A Creole language is a language which develops from a pigdin (a modified version of regular languages used to communicate between people who do not share a common language).
		Recently we translated a school brochure, a warning sign and several advertising slogans into Haitian Creole.
	www.wordnet.com /languages/haitian.html (99 words)

	Haitian Creole courses offered through interactive video to serve as prototype for the future
		With support from the IU College of Arts and Sciences and Office of Distributed Education, the Creole Institute on the IU Bloomington campus is offering two semesters of Haitian Creole.
		According to Erwin Boschmann, IU associate vice president for distributed education, the Haitian Creole courses put into motion one of the innovative action items promulgated in the Strategic Plan for Distributed Education.
		Albert Valdman, Rudy Professor of French and Italian, and linguistics, and director of the Creole Institute, noted that IU is uniquely positioned to offer the Haitian Creole courses.
	www.homepages.indiana.edu /011901/text/video.html (515 words)

	Haiti Global Village Official Sponsors ArtMedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Haiti Global Village is devoted to Haiti and the Haitian People throughout the global village.
		Here you will find a wide and varied selection of Haitian Art as well as a vast amount of documentation on Haitian Art and the Artist who have made Haitian Art an International phenomenon.
		Haitian news in Haiti and throughout the major cities of the Haitian Diaspora of interest to Haitians.
	www.haitiglobalvillage.com (1512 words)

	Creole
		Kreyol.com is dedicated to supporting positive images of Haitian Culture on the internet.
		Club Creole is the Haitian Student Association at the University of Florida.
		Bibliographer, editor, educator, essayist, interpreter, grammarian, lexicographer, linguist, novelist, poet, researcher, translator, and author of several books, articles and documents on Haitian Creole, Emmanuel W. VEDRINE was born in Lazil, Haiti
	www.haiticentral.com /Creole.htm (421 words)

	Haitian Creole Language Research and Studies
		The purpose of this guide to Haitian Creole Language studies and research is to provide you with a combined print and web-link source for the study and research of the Haitian Creole Language.
		The second method of searching by keywords can be very powerful if you remember that the word(s) you use can be located anywhere within a bibliographic record's text, and may or may not pertain to the subject or topic which you are searching.
		Haitian Creole-English English-Haitian Creole medical dictionary with glossary of food and drink: medicine in Haiti II.
	www.fiu.edu /~library/internet/subjects/languages/haitcreo.html (363 words)

	UMass Boston \| CCDE \| Summer Institute \| Haitian Creole Language and Culture Summer Institute
		The Haitian Creole Summer Institute has been offered in Massachusetts for the past eighteen years.
		There will be a three-week intensive program in different levels of Haitian Creole.
		The program is designed to meet the needs of those who plan to conduct research in Haiti or in the Haitian dias-pora, or who work in a volunteer or professional capacity either in Haiti or with Haitians abroad.
	www.ccde.umb.edu /summerinstitute/haitiancreole.html (512 words)

	Haitian-Creole
		Given the lack of available information on learning Haitian Creole, I was very happy when I found the Pimsleur tapes, and even happier when I was able to get them at a discount on Amazon.com.
		I agree with the other reviewers that the limited content is disappointing, but it's a good start and overall I'm happy with my purchase.
		My wife (who is Haitian) and her friends and family are amazed at the progress I've made in such a short period of time.
	www.kingshopper.com /store/catalog/browseprods/2272/0671579290 (599 words)

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