1. Family: other
  2. Genus: Creoles and Pidgins

Haitian Creole

WALS coordinates: 19° N, 72° 30′ W

spoken in Haiti

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Western Caribbean Creole
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Creole (Haitian)
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
    Nominal Syntax
    Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
    Simple Clauses
    Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both
    Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat
    Predicative Possession 'Have'
    Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Different
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible