Origins
There are many theories on the formation of the Haitian Creole language.
One states that a form of creole had already started to develop on West African trading posts before the importation of African slaves into the Americas, and that since many of those slaves were being kept for some amount of time near these trading posts before being sent to the Caribbean, they would have learned a rudimentary creole even before getting there.
Another one states that Haitian creole was mostly locally developed when slaves speaking languages from the Fon family started to relexify them with vocabulary from the French language.
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