The following request has been received:

This data was submitted on: Sunday, December 22, 2002 at 00:23:50

lang_in_eng = Haitian Creole
lang_in_fre = creole haitien
ref_where_found_1 =
lang_in_vern = Kreyol, Kreyol Ayisyen
ref_where_found_2 = Pale kreyol : manuel d'apprentissage du creole a l'usage
des francophones / Alix Renaud. Quebec, Quebec : Garneau-International,
1994.
trans_lit =
evidence = University of California Library System (62)
See http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/~sburke/iso_haitian_citations.txt
addinfo = Haitian is the first (and very often only) language of the roughly
7.5 million people
who live in the Republic of Haiti.  Haitian and French are the official
languages
of Haiti.
request_addition = ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2
2_code_suggestion = hc
3_code_suggestion = hcr
submit_name = Sean Michael Burke
submit_email = [log in to unmask]
submit_status = Scholar of the language


CURRENT STATUS:

ISO 639-2: Currently encoded cpf ("Creoles and pidgins, French-based
(Other)").

Ethnologue: HAT = "Haitian Creole French"

Linguasphere: 51-AAC-cb = "haitien", under which four local variants are
listed.


COMMENTS:

Haitian Creole is spoken by some 7 million people. The language has official
status (together with French) in Haiti.

The submission lists 62 documents, out of which quite a few are written in
French or English (altogether less than 50 are actually IN Haitian Creole).
However, simple searches on the Internet finds a number of documents.
Dictionaries and terminology exists.

It is my opinion that both alpha-2 and alpha-3 identifiers need to be
assigned.

The language name in English is given as "Haitian Creole" or "Haitian Creole
French" in most sources. I have also found just "Haitian". I should think
that we might want to list "Haitian Creole; Haitian" as English names and
"creole haitien; haitien" as French names.

As to identifier I see no reason to deviate from the Ethnologue alpha-3
identifier: hat. Alpha-2 "ht" is available, and I will propose that. The
identifiers in the original submission are also available.

I invite comments/discussion on this topic.

Best regards,
Havard

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