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Haiti Men's Under-20 International Footballers
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean, and with an estimated population of 11.4 million, is the most populous Caribbean country. The capital and largest city is Port-au-Prince. Haiti was originally inhabited by the Taíno people. In 1492, Christopher Columbus established the first European settlement in the Americas, La Navidad, on its northeastern coast. The island was part of the Spanish Empire until 1697, when the western portion was Peace of Ryswick, ceded to France and became Saint-Domingue, dominated by sugarcane sugar plantations in the Caribbean, plantations worked by enslaved Africans. The 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution made Haiti the first sovereign state in the Caribbean, the second republic in the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haitian French
Haitian French ( ; ) is the variety of French language, French spoken in Haiti. Haitian French is close to standard French. It should be distinguished from Haitian Creole, which is not Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible with French. Phonology The phoneme consonant // is pronounced [], but it is often silent in the syllable coda when occurring before a consonant or prosodic break (''faire'' is pronounced [ː]). The nasal vowels are not pronounced as in French of France, Metropolitan French: // → [], // → [], // → [], and // → []. The typical vowel shifts make it sound very much like other regional accents of the French West Indies, French Caribbean and the Francophone countries of African French, Africa. The perceivable difference between Haitian French and the French spoken in Paris lies in the Haitian speaker's intonation, where a subtle Haitian Creole, creole-based tone carrying the French on top is found. Importantly, these differences are not enough to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |