| Creole!!!!! |
| kouman ou ye? |
| How are you? |
| mwen byen hi blanc bye mesi |
| very good hello white bye thank you |
| et ou kouman ou ye? mwen pa pi mal |
| and how are you? not too bad |
| yeah. the next time I go to Haiti i'll be learning this language. Most ppl think it's a mix of French and Spanish. There is no Spanish: 'tis a mix of African tribal dialects and French. It's to French what Chicago ghetto is to British English. |
| tu bitsi a little um paco pram i don't understand un one de two twa three cat four sank five ses six set seven ou-eat eight neff nine dez ten onz eleven doze twelve trez thirteen catorz fourteen quinz fifteen sez sixteen dezset seventeen dez ou-eat eighteen dez neff nineteen veh twenty ceh one hundred bef beef pol chicken quisa oudzi what do you say? quidza oudzi how do you say quiyay spoon citron lemon grenadja passionfruit m'rulay my name is drizi rice bet animal exite excited ok you're welcome zandolest lizard merci empeel thank you very much sheet dlo waterfall sheet fall dlo water orangz orange bluh blue libertay liberty woosh rock flar flower ku lev snake dambala spirit of the snake flu leaf drudeelah today por for compren understand defiay defy catoleec catholic accepte que accept that ligay why cay house parron parents menraj boy/girl friend lamou love remnen to love mue remnen ou i love you pa rem ou i don't love you compa the haitian pop music ougi mama do you have a mother? ougi papa do you have a father? balloon ball amize ou fun zeb grass foumi ant zenet window ou ale art you are fast driblar dribble chouter kick gree green ecole school Kreyol Creole Anglais English eglise church bienvenue welcome ok, well, all except the last five are spelled as i can guess best to speel them as they sound instead of the correct literary spelling. however, for some reason on half of them i used Spanish phontic spelling since that language is SO much easier to write the way it sounds....who knows, it gives the general idea. and the order is in that which i learned the words. i'm too lazy right now to alphabetize it. |