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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Haiti!
23Nov By Gareth SeagullNo Comments
Learning Languages

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Haiti!

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. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Languages of Haiti French Haitian Creole Minority And Foreign Languages of Haiti English Spanish Portuguese (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Taino (Extinct)
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of The Bahamas
26Oct By Gareth SeagullNo Comments
Learning Languages

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of The Bahamas

A country of only 400,000 people that mainly survives off its financial services and tourism industries, the Bahamas is probably one of those countries you rarely think of, yet the languages of the Bahamas would probably surprise with just how... odd... they are. Indeed, the country is home to three languages used on a daily basis, as well as dozens of historical and cultural languages, mostly owing to the lack of immigration to the country in recent decades. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Language of The Bahamas English (400,000) Local Dialects Bahamian English (350,000) Haitian Creole (98,300) Other Languages of The Bahamas Dutch (5,000) Spanish (8,000) Portuguese (7,500) (adsbygoogle = window.adsby...
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