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Haitian Creole

Haitian Creole (; Haitian Creole: krey??l ayisyen, [k??ej??l ajisj????]; French: cr??ole ha??tien, [k??e.??l a.i.sj????]), or simply Creole (Haitian Creole: krey??l), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 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 the vast majority of the population. Northern, Central, and Southern dialects are the three main dialects of Haitian Creole. The Northern dialect is predominantly spoken in Cap-Ha??tien, Central is spoken in Port-au-Prince, and Southern in the Cayes area. 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...

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