Haitian Creole, called Kreyol Ayisyen by its speakers, developed in the French colony of Saint-Domingue during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, drawing most of its vocabulary from French while its grammar reflects West African languages. It is one of Haiti's two official languages, a status confirmed by the 1987 constitution, and unlike French it is spoken by effectively the whole population, well over 10 million people. A standard spelling using the Latin alphabet was made official in 1979, and the language is now used in schools, courts, radio and church life. Large diaspora communities keep it in daily use in the United States, Canada, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and France. It is among the most widely spoken creole languages in the world.
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