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If you know of any other resources, please drop them in the comments. We also on our site have tons of free resources for Haitian Creole, but also other Caribbean related games, stories, activities etc.: www.isseandlo.com/resources

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Teaching your little one their language is an act of love. 💛
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We can laugh at the haunted house jokes — I laughed making them.
But they are a reminder for us unlearn the mindset behind them. And not to be afraid to remind others to put some respect on our ancestors' names.

Creoles are not broken anything.
They are brilliant, beautiful, and ours.

This is one of my favorite months to celebrate. Creole Heritage Month reminds me... and now I'm sharing this with you:
✨ Believing in your language
is believing in yourself. ✨

Teaching your kids the language is betting on them.

In the Caribbean region, only two Creoles are officially recognized by states:
Haitian Creole & Papiamento .

But truth be told —
we, the people, are what make a language official.
Every word we speak keeps it alive. WE THE PEOPLE are the culture keepers!

The word Creole comes from the Portuguese “crioulo,”
meaning “someone raised in a new land.”
These languages were born out of survival —
a way for people torn from their homes or disrupted internally to build new communities.

#CreoleHistory

In fact globally this stat 👇

“Every fortnight, at least one indigenous language vanishes from the face of the earth...This translates into two extinct indigenous languages each month”

source: Tijjani Muhammad-Bande.
UN News

Let’s make sure ours aren’t next.

But too many Creoles are disappearing.
Here are a few of the most endangered ones:

Mombasa Pidgin — <500 speakers
Grenadian French Patois — <500
Kromanti (Jamaican Maroon Creole) — <1k ritual users
Angoche Creole — 1–2k
San Andrés–Providencia Creole — 20k-30k

(📸 Source: The Black Brit Eng Podcast)

🇭🇹 For Haitians, like me - Kreyòl isn’t just a language —
it’s the language of our revolution.
The **very tool** that united our ancestors to imagine freedom.

#HaitianCreole #CreoleHeritageMonth

Creoles aren’t broken languages — HARD STOP —
they’re miracles of communication.
Born out of the pure need to connect - often marrying African, Indigenous, and European contact,
Creoles prove what people can build under impossible circumstances.

#CreoleHeritageMonth

But on a serious note —
If you didn't know - now you do - October is International Creole Heritage Month.
It’s a time to honor the beauty, ingenuity, and cultural power of our Creole languages — across Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, and the world.

#CreoleMonth

A haunted house…
but instead of ghosts —
it’s your relatives telling you,
“Ou pa pale Kreyòl, lang ou lou.”

🥴 So many diaspora kids know a version of this one.

A haunted house…
but instead of ghosts —
it’s people telling you your kids should be learning “useful” or “commercial” languages, not Creole.

👀Spoiler: little is more useful than knowing who you are especially that how your ancestors communicated. Creating a language out of necessity & community.

A haunted house…
but instead of ghosts —
there’s an uninformed army of people saying Creoles are
“informal popular languages”
not worth teaching the next generation.

#CreoleHeritageMonth