Some Haitians view French as a legacy of colonialism, while Creole has been maligned by francophones as a miseducated person's French. The usage of, and education in, Haitian Creole has been contentious since at least the 19th century. However, this is disputable, as Nigerian Pidgin, an English-based Creole language, is attested by some sources to have a larger number of speakers than that of Haitian Creole and other French-based Creole languages, particularly if non-native speakers are included. Haitians are the largest community in the world speaking a modern creole language, according to some sources. It is not mutually intelligible with standard French, and has its own distinctive grammar. It also has influences from Spanish, English, Portuguese, Taino, and other West African languages. Although its vocabulary largely derives from 18th-century French, its grammar is that of a West African Volta-Congo language branch, particularly the Fongbe and Igbo languages. The language emerged from contact between French settlers and enslaved Africans during the Atlantic slave trade in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) in the 17th and 18th centuries. ![]() Haitian Creole ( / ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l/ Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, French: créole haïtien, ), commonly referred to as simply Creole, or Kreyòl in the Creole language, is a French-based creole language spoken by 10–12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it is the native language of a majority of the population. A Haitian Creole speaker, recorded in the United States
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