Bob Lapierre

Comparativve Linguistics Bob Lapierre

On the farther side of many other arguments, the Ayitian culture is "Agriculture", "Vodoun", and "Kreyòl". Allow me to host you into the exploration of one of the most beautiful modern languages, Creole, the Ayitian Kreyòl for all intent. The Ayitian literature is a gardenful of black and white bewitching expressions breaded with savoir faire and full of zesty poetries and proses intermingled with an inherited foreign language (French). With their plantation-born language (Kreyòl), one can imagine the Sanba's pencil rolling like fire-flies flirting with the dark. The Creole speaker now can read and write in his/her own mother tongue. Kreyòl is the language of the Ayitian, and so is French. Kreyòl is a plantation-born language and French is a language of heritage. Ayitians of all classes and status show their appreciation of both languages regardless of their past history of "bringing the Kreyòl to naught." It survived. However, as opposed to Kreyòl which is spoken by all Ayitians, only a minority speak French. Michèle Montas summed it all up as follows. ". . . Kreyòl is the everyday language in which 100% of the people express their wisdom and profound alienation. French, however, which used to be the official and the promotional language, is spoken only by an insignificant minority . . .." Kreyòl survived.