Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Haiti!

languages of haiti: Haitian children posing for a picture in Carrefour

Famous for having been the first modern country to abolish slavery, Haiti isn’t really known for its linguistic diversity, especially not since the premiership of dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Indeed, this fact makes the languages of Haiti quite unique in many ways…

Indeed, whilst other Caribbean nations are incredibly linguistically diverse, with languages from seemingly every nation on Earth, Haiti just has European languages or those derived from European languages.

Official Languages of Haiti

French

Haitian Creole

Minority And Foreign Languages of Haiti

English

Spanish

Portuguese

Taino (Extinct)