The Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (; ; ) is the

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of Haitian Creole. It is composed of up to 55scholars under the leadership of Rogéda Dorcé Dorcil.

Background

The Haitian Creole language did not have any regulation until the 1940s, when former Haitian president

Élie Lescot Antoine Louis Léocardie Élie Lescot (; December 9, 1883 – October 20, 1974) was the President (government title), President of Haiti from May 15, 1941 to January 11, 1946. He was a member of the country's mixed-race elite. He used the politic ...

made attempts at standardizing the language. It had an official orthography by the late 1970s, and it was elevated to co-official language with French in the 1987 Haitian Constitution. The constitution, in Article 213, stated that a Haitian creole language academy should be founded. The language still lacked an academy to regulate its evolution until about 25 years later.

History

In December 2014, the Haitian president and legislation approved of the establishment of the Haitian Creole Academy. 33 scholars came together and formed the organization to form a uniform syntax, to ensure the Haitian government is able to better communicate with its people, lead the way for more publications of books and various other forms of media, and to end the stigma behind speaking the language. In 2017, Renauld Govain, dean of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the

State University of Haiti The State University of Haiti (, ) is one of Haiti's most prestigious institutions of higher education. It is located in Port-au-Prince. Its origins date to the 1820s, when colleges of medicine and law were established. In 1942, the various facu ...

, criticized the Akademi's first resolution, saying it confused orthography, alphabet, and spelling.

Members

The allows for anywhere from 33 to 55or members. , they included the following:

Former members

Max Gesner Beauvoir Max Gesner Beauvoir (August 25, 1936 – September 12, 2015) was a Haitian biochemist and ''houngan''. Beauvoir held one of the highest titles of Voudou priesthood, Ati or "Supreme Serviteur" (supreme servant), a title given to Houngans and M ...

Rachel Beauvoir Dominique Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique (18 May 1965 – 5 January 2018) was a Haitian anthropologist and Vodou mambo. Early life Beauvoir-Dominique's father was Max Beauvoir, a Haitian biochemist, and her mother was Elisabeth Marchand, a French natio ...

Marie Marcelle Buteau Racine Marie Marcelle Buteau Racine was a professor of linguistics. Biography Marie Marcelle Buteau Racine was born on May 31, 1934, in Les Cayes, Haiti. She was a Haitian professor of linguistics and a founding member of the Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen ...

References

External links

* Haitian Creole Language regulators Learned societies of Haiti

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