Haiti Languages

Description
The two official languages of Haiti are French and Haitian Creole.

French 
 * principal written and administratively authorized language
 * spoken by 42% of Haitians
 * spoken by all educated Haitians
 * the medium of instruction in most schools
 * used in the business sector
 * used in ceremonial events such as weddings, graduations and church Masses

Haitian Creole
 * recently undergone a standardization
 * spoken by virtually the entire population of Haiti
 * one of the French-based creole languages
 * Its vocabulary is 90% derived from French, but its grammar resembles that of some West African languages
 * has influences from Taino, Spanish, and Portuguese
 * related to the other French creoles, but most closely to the Antillean Creole and Louisiana Creole variants

Difference between Haitian Creole and French
 * Haitian Creole and French have similar pronunciations and share many lexical items
 * over 90% of the Haitian Creole vocabulary is of French origin
 * many cognate terms actually have different meanings
 * the grammars of Haitian Creole and French are very different (in Haitian Creole, verbs are not conjugated as they are in French)
 * both Haitian Creole and French have also experienced semantic change; words that had a single meaning in the 17th century have changed or have been replaced in both languages

Word List(s)

 * French Genealogical Word List
 * French Word List
 * Haitian Creole Vocabulary and Word Lists
 * Haitian Creole Word List - People
 * Haitian Creole Word List - Family
 * Haitian Creole Word List - Days of the Week and Months of the Year

Alphabet and Pronunciation

 * Haitian Creole Consonants and Vowels - Wikipedia
 * Haitian Creole Numbers - Wikipedia
 * French Language Consonants and Vowels - Wikipedia
 * French Language Alphabet - Wikipedia

Language Aids and Dictionaries
Language Aids
 * French Language
 * French Handwriting
 * Haitian Creole Grammar - Pronouns, Articles, Verbs, etc.
 * Language Origins of Haitian Creole Words

Dictionaries
 * Féquière Vilsaint & Jean-Evens Berret, English Haitian Creole dictionary, Coconut Creek, FL : Educa Vision, 2005 - Available at WorldCat
 * Charmant Theodore, Haitian Creole dictionary & phrasebook, New York Hippocrene Books 2009 - Available at WorldCat
 * Jean Targète & Raphael G Urciolo, Haitian Creole-English dictionary, Kensington, Md. : Dunwoody Press, 1993 - Available at WorldCat
 * Evelyn Goldsmith, Amanda Earl, Lyn Mitchell & Adriana Capadose, French dictionary, Bromley : Harrap, 1990 - Available at WorldCat
 * Pierre-Henri Cousin, Collins French dictionary, HarperCollins Publishers, Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference 2012 - Available at WorldCat

Online Dictionaries
 * Haitian Creole-English Dictionary (Haiti-Reference)
 * Translator Haitian Creole to English (Microsoft Bing)
 * English-French Dictionary (Collins)
 * English-French Dictionary (Reverso Dictionary)

Additional Resources

 * Cécile Accilien & Jowel C Laguerre, Haitian Creole phrasebook, New York : McGraw-Hill, 2011 - Available at WorldCat
 * Albert Valdman, Haitian Creole : structure, variation, status, origin, Sheffield, UK : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2015 - Available at WorldCat