Haitian Creole · Kreyòl ayisyen

Creole Dictionary
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Research references

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Research candidate · authoritative orthography

Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen — official portal

Official Haitian institution; links orthography resolutions and describes general/legal dictionary work. No complete production dictionary API was verified.

Institutional status is not evidence for every proposed word definition or etymology.

License: not found · Link and cite; public accessibility does not authorize bulk dictionary copying.

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Research candidate · authoritative orthography

Dezyèm Rezolisyon sou Òtograf Lang Kreyòl Ayisyen, September 2023

Official 20-page resolution linked directly by AKA. Use 2023 clarifications ahead of conflicting 2017 points.

Spelling rules are not an etymological dictionary.

License: not found · Cite precise section/page; do not treat the public PDF as an open corpus.

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Research candidate · authoritative orthography

Premye rezolisyon sou òtograf kreyòl ayisyen an

Government record of AKA/MENFP/FLA first orthography resolution in 2017.

Not a current downloadable licensed word database.

License: not found · Cite government announcement; check later AKA resolution for current details.

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Research candidate · published lexicography

Haitian Creole-English Bilingual Dictionary (2007)

Published 781-page bilingual reference; Valdman/Iskrova with editorial team; ISBN 9780929236063.

A catalog verifies bibliography, not permission to reproduce definitions.

License: copyright no open license verified · Consult lawfully available edition; cite entry/page/edition. No bulk copying authorized.

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Research candidate · published lexicography

English-Haitian Creole Bilingual Dictionary (2017)

English-to-Haitian counterpart with Marvin Moody and Thomas E. Davies.

Opposite translation direction can have different sense coverage.

License: copyright no open license verified · Reference by edition/entry; do not inherit reuse permission from an institutional biography.

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Research candidate · published lexicography

Diksyonè Kreyòl Vilsen

Monolingual Haitian definitions, parts of speech and contextual sentences;1994 edition digitized from Educa Vision holdings.

Later editions differ; preserve cited edition and do not label the 1994 edition current.

License: copyright no open license verified · Use bibliographic/entry citations; open digital access is not a bulk-reuse license.

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Research candidate · published lexicography

Haitian-English Dictionary — Freeman and Laguerre

KU author record identifies Haitian-English Dictionary; editions require explicit bibliographic selection.

Do not infer reproduction rights from freely available related teaching PDFs.

License: copyright no open license verified · Citation/reference only; no complete open license verified.

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Research candidate · pronunciation reference

A Basic Course in Haitian Creole (1970), pronunciation recordings

Teaching and pronunciation audio; historical course materials with public access designated by author.

Historical orthography may differ from 2023; one speaker/course does not define all regional pronunciation.

License: public access not open reuse license · Listen/reference pronunciation; obtain/review reuse rights before embedding recordings.

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Research candidate · domain glossary

MIT-Haiti living STEM glossary

Haitian-English STEM equivalents; authors explicitly distinguish dynamic terminology development from a dictionary.

Current fetch returned 404; indexed primary content and linked CSV were not downloaded. Terminology proposals are not historical etymologies.

License: CC-BY-4.0 · Primary indexed page statesCC BY 4.0; retain attribution, but recheck live source/download before ingesting.

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Research candidate · scholarly etymology

DECA I — Mots d’origine française (2018)

French-based American Creoles, including cited Haitian material; comparative lexical history in three volumes.

French lexical etymon, African grammatical influence and cultural history are separate claim types.

License: copyright no open license verified · Use lawful reference access and page/entry citations; do not copy complete entries.

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Research candidate · scholarly etymology

DECA II — Mots d’origine non-française ou inconnue (2017)

Publisher sample identifies the non-French-or-unknown-origin volume; relevant starting reference for African-origin hypotheses.

Non-French does not mean African; unknown and competing hypotheses must remain visible.

License: copyright publisher sample no bulk reuse · Cite exact entries/pages in full lawful edition; publisher preview is not an open data license.

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Research candidate · scholarly description

APiCS survey 49: Haitian Creole

Dedicated Haitian Creole phonology, grammar and sociohistorical survey.

Historical chapter includes dated dictionary/social estimates; not every old generalization is a current fact. Not word-level proof of every loan.

License: CC-BY-4.0 · Attribution required; cite author/chapter/section and distinguish dated observations.

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Research candidate · language structure dataset

APiCS Haitian Creole structure dataset 49

Haitian structural features and source bibliography.

Feature values and grammar are not a complete lexicon or translation engine.

License: CC-BY-4.0 · Attribute APiCS editors/contribution and retain feature-level citations.

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Research candidate · annotated corpus

UD Haitian Creole Autogramm

144 sentences/3418 tokens; Cap-Haïtien variety; manual-native lemma/POS/features; SUD annotation converted toUD.

Narrow sample and regional/source mix; not a dictionary or validated etymology store.

License: CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Preserve attribution/license/change notices; review share-alike scope for reused/adapted material.

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Research candidate · annotated corpus

UD Haitian Creole Adolphe

3314 sentences from one Bible-related source; annotations programmatic/converted with corrections. README token totals and summary wording differ.

Do not equate programmatic labels with native expert validation; religious-domain bias.

License: CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Preserve attribution/license; pin release and verify actual file counts.

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Research candidate · translation benchmark

FLORES-200

Explicit Haitian codehat_Latn; professionally translated evaluation sentences.

Not a dictionary. Legacy repository no longer updated.

License: CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Attribute source/license; preserve benchmark integrity rather than using evaluation sentences as training material.

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Research candidate · translation benchmark

FLORES+ (current dataset cardv 5.0)

Language inventory explicitly lists hat/Latn/hait1244.

Old GitHub successor is archived; use the primary Hugging Face dataset. No dictionary authority.

License: CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Dataset is gated; owner must review/accept conditions. Card says evaluation only and should not be training data. No acceptance/download performed.

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Research candidate · parallel corpus catalog

OPUS parallel corpus collection and API

HT-English benchmark/data history evidenced by official OPUS-MT cards; pair-specific API response was unavailable in this browser tool.

Cannot label all OPUS material open/commercial; no mass corpus download performed.

License: per corpus license required · Check each selected corpus/version/license/source; OPUS hosting is not one uniform license.

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Research candidate · translation model

OPUS-MT ht-en

Explicit model for ht-en; local inference candidate, not a ready configured service.

Outputs are proposals requiring native review, especially senses, names and cultural language. Model cards say no hosted inference provider currently.

License: Apache-2.0 · Retain Apache notices and examine upstream model/data terms; model license is not corpus permission.

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Research candidate · translation model

OPUS-MT en-ht

Explicit model for en-ht; local inference candidate, not a ready configured service.

Outputs are proposals requiring native review, especially senses, names and cultural language. Model cards say no hosted inference provider currently.

License: Apache-2.0 · Retain Apache notices and examine upstream model/data terms; model license is not corpus permission.

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Research candidate · translation model

NLLB-200 distilled 600M

Explicithat_Latn/ht coverage among supported languages.

Model card explicitly excludes production/document/domain-specific deployment; do not confuse model license with FLORES data license.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0 · Noncommercial research candidate only; no default monetized-podcast/product deployment.

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Research candidate · translation model

Kreyòl-MT code and public-data model

Haitianhat included in multilingual Creole translation work; public-data model separately available.

Dataset license is explicitlyother, not inheritedMIT; broad language targets do not guarantee equal pair quality.

License: MIT · Keep model/software notices; assess upstream base model and dataset provenance separately.

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Research candidate · parallel corpus

Kreyòl-MT dataset

Haitianhat language andhat-eng/configurations present.

Code/modelMIT does not license this corpus.

License: other · Inspect every selected source/subset before reuse; no blanket public/commercial approval.

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Research candidate · mixed benchmark suite

CreoleVal benchmark suite

Haitian appears in MIT-Haiti MT, comprehension, WikiAnn NER, Tatoeba matching and religiousMT.

No uniform repo-wide permission; do not merge copyrighted Bible data into a public dictionary.

License: mixed · MIT-Haiti table saysCC 4.0 without full variant; religiousMT copyrighted; MC Microsoft license; WikiAnn unspecified. Resolve exact per-folder license before copying.

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Research candidate · speech dataset

Common Voice scripted speech 27.0 Haitian

ht:30 clips,29 validated,3 contributors,161.402 validated seconds.

Tiny Haitian subset; not a ready robust ASR/TTS model, dictionary or etymology source.

License: CC0-1.0 · Official Common Voice catalog/guidelines declareCC 0. Verify release datasheet/download terms; metadata repo itself isMPL 2.0. No speaker identification or cloning assumption.

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Excluded for Haitian coverage · speech benchmark

Google FLEURS

not_listed

Haitianht/hat is absent from the checked official inventory; do not substitute Kabuverdianukea.

License: CC-BY-4.0 · License does not solve absent Haitian coverage.

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Research candidate · language catalog

Glottolog Haitianhait1244

Haitian glottocodehait1244, ISO 639-3 hat and bibliography.

Catalog classification is not a lexicon, translation engine or word-origin proof.

License: CC-BY-4.0 · Attribute catalog; cited publications retain their own rights.

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Research candidate · locale data

Unicode CLDR Haitian locale

Actualht locale has language name, character exemplars and number symbols; limited locale data.

Formatting/exemplars are not general dictionary entries or prescriptive phoneme analysis.

License: Unicode-3.0 · Retain copyright/permission notice; data license differs from technical-standard document terms.

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Research candidate · community lexicography

Haitian Creole Wiktionary extraction via Kaikki

Checked snapshot lists 2063 distinct word forms from enwiktionary dump 2026-10-01, extraction 2026-10-30.

Not an official or automatically validated etymology source; extraction errors and merged-source details require review.

License: CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Preserve entry URL/revision/authorship history, license and change notice; review imported-content and media exceptions separately. Wiktextract software license does not replace data license.

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Research candidate · community parallel sentences

Tatoeba Haitian Creole sentences

Official Haitian sentence pages and project announcement confirm coverage.

Example sentences/translations can be wrong; not lexicographic or historical authority.

License: CC-BY-2.0-FR · Preserve sentence IDs, contributor attribution and license; audio has separate per-item licensing.

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Research candidate · comparative wordlist

ASJP Haitian Creole wordlist

Dedicated Haitian wordlist, ISOhat/glottocodehait1244.

This Haitian list cites Wiktionary; it is not independent corroboration of Wiktionary etymologies.

License: CC-BY-4.0 · Attribute wordlist/compiler and retain cited underlying source provenance.

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Research candidate · legacy language resources

CMU Haitian Creole language resources release (2010)

Primary release announcement confirms spoken/textual Haitian data for translation research.

Legacy download host timed out; no dataset bytes/license were inspected.

License: specific download terms unverified · Announcement saysminimal restrictions, not a standard open license. Verify each legacy file and restriction before reuse.

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Research candidate · tts model

MMS Haitian Creole TTS checkpoint

Explicit Haitian Creolehat speech-synthesis checkpoint.

Machine pronunciation needs native review; model existence does not establish voice quality or commercial rights.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0 · Noncommercial research only absent separate permission; do not default to monetized podcast/dictionary pronunciation production.

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