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Light says March 15, 2019 at 8:41 am Please tell me how to pronounce “Death Phantom Prince” for a graphic novel I’m writing. Reply
Anthony Kummer says April 16, 2019 at 10:44 am There’s not a great way to say that in Creole. In Haiti they’d likely just use a French title (like all their political stuff is in French too) prince fantôme de la mort (I’d go with the google translate french) https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&tl=fr&text=death%20fantom%20prince For Creole the best we could figure would be something like this: chèf fantom nan lanmò Reply
Asha C Spence says August 15, 2019 at 10:03 pm Our steel band is playing a song called “Map Mande Courage,” how do you pronounce it, specifically “mande?” Reply
Anthony Kummer says August 26, 2019 at 4:21 pm There’s a good example in the middle of this recording. https://haitiancreole.net/driver-talk/ Reply
Cxppui says October 6, 2019 at 2:26 pm Sometimes my mother/ other Haitian relatives call me “pitum” or “pea tum”. I dont know the exact spelling of it but i was wondering what it exactly means. Reply
Anthony Kummer says October 8, 2019 at 1:11 pm pitit mwen – my child often spoken all together pitit’m Reply
lovethejourney says April 19, 2020 at 8:25 am How do you distinguish between the different types of hair on your body. I know there is cheve (sou tèt la) and plim (sou pye ak bra) is there 1 more? Reply
Please tell me how to pronounce “Death Phantom Prince” for a graphic novel I’m writing.
There’s not a great way to say that in Creole. In Haiti they’d likely just use a French title (like all their political stuff is in French too)
prince fantôme de la mort (I’d go with the google translate french)
https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&tl=fr&text=death%20fantom%20prince
For Creole the best we could figure would be something like this:
chèf fantom nan lanmò
Our steel band is playing a song called “Map Mande Courage,” how do you pronounce it, specifically “mande?”
There’s a good example in the middle of this recording.
https://haitiancreole.net/driver-talk/
Sometimes my mother/ other Haitian relatives call me “pitum” or “pea tum”. I dont know the exact spelling of it but i was wondering what it exactly means.
pitit mwen – my child
often spoken all together pitit’m
Does Gres Cacao actually work?
the alphabet in Haitian creole
How do you distinguish between the different types of hair on your body. I know there is cheve (sou tèt la) and plim (sou pye ak bra) is there 1 more?
What does KREK mean?