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Le français en Haïti, le français d’Haïti

Du Xviie Siècle à nos jours

In: Journal of Language Contact
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Dominique Fattier Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Dominique.Fattier@u-cergy.fr

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Focusing on French, I show how ecological factors influence language evolution. After explaining what the ecological approach consists of, I provide a chronological description of language contacts involving French in Saint-Domingue / Haïti. I focus on the various effects of these contacts, particularly on the emergence of a French-based creole thanks to speakers’ informal acquisition of French. After providing a description of the French spoken by the founding fathers of the ex-colony, I turn to different contributions by Haitians to representations and descriptions of French in Haiti. I conclude by providing some elements of Haiti’s modern sociolinguistic situation.

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