How to Use Haitian Creole in a Sentence

Haitian Creole

noun
  • The group sang in Haitian Creole to drumbeats; some of them moved with trance-like gestures.
    New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • In front of him were dozens of angry men and a few women, yelling in Haitian Creole.
    Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • In the course of the eighteenth century, a new language, today known as Haitian Creole, or Kreyòl, emerged.
    Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 12 May 2022
  • One of the stipulations is that at least 10% of personnel at the facility will have to be fluent in Spanish and Haitian Creole.
    Nicholas Reimann, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Across the region, locals also speak Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and English.
    Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com, 23 May 2022
  • In Haitian Creole, the women of her family grace her with compliments on her real beauty or liken her smooth, brown complexion to a type of tree with a rich brown trunk.
    Kaitlyn McNab, Allure, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The 7,400-student district employs five bilingual assistants who speak Haitian Creole and six who speak Spanish.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Even though Haitians are one of the nationalities recently included in expulsions, the app is not available in Haitian Creole.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • They were seen as a weird gumbo of alternative hip-hop that featured rhymes in Haitian Creole and live instrumentation on songs that relied on Hill’s melodies and Jean’s showmanship.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In the four or five different constantly playing tracks, visitors heard voices in Spanish, English, and Haitian Creole telling their stories of migration and talking about the meaning of the word home.
    Marlene Daut, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Others have pointed out that Kenyan forces will be linguistically disadvantaged leading a mission in a country where French and Haitian Creole are the official languages.
    Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Available in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole, these workshops cover relevant topics on raising successful, healthy and happy children and youth.
    Juliette Fabien, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Speaking Haitian Creole with English subtitles, Dorsainvil also discussed her captors, who haven’t been identified publicly.
    Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023

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