Countries
Haiti
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Haiti
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Central America, North America
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Cuba
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
French Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
710
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Bonjou
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Mèsi
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Kijan ou yé?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Bon nwit
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Bonswa
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Bon apre-midi
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Bon apre-midi
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Souple
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Dezole
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Babay
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Mwen renmen w
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Eskize m
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Northern Haitian Creole
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Cap-Haitien
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Haitian Creole
Olonets
Where They Speak
Port-au-Prince
Olonets
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Haitian Creole
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Cayes
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.60 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.15 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
9.60 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kreyòl ayisyen
Русский
Alternative Names
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
Russki
French Name
haïtien; créole haïtien
russe
German Name
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Russisch
Pronunciation
[kɣejɔl]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Haitians
Russians
Origin
17th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Haitian Creole
Standard Russian
Language Position
997
1
120
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Signed Forms
Langue des Signes Haïtienne (LSH)
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ht
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hat
rus
ISO 639 2/B
hat
rus
ISO 639 3
hat
rus
ISO 639 6
hat
rus
Glottocode
hait1244
russ1263
Linguasphere
51-AAC-cb
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic