The depreciation of haitian creole and haitian code switching La depreciación del creole haitiano y el cambio de código haitiano Patrick Pierre1 Recepción: 06 de agosto de 2020 Aceptación: 15 de octubre de 2020 1 Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE), Quito, Ecuador.
[email protected] REVISTA PUCE. ISSN: 2528-8156. NÚM. 111 3 NOVIEMBRE DE 2020 - 3 MAYO DE 2021, PATRICK PIERRE, PP. 71-91 The depreciation of haitian creole and haitian code switching La depreciación del creole haitiano y el cambio de código haitiano patrick Pierre Key words: Creole language, Haitian Creole, Lexifier, Code-switch, Depreciation. Palabras clave: Idioma Creole, Creole haitiano, Lexificador, Cambio de código, Depreciación. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to dominance, it was the language of the give an overview of Haitian code-switch- plantations’ masters. These two lan- ing as a diglossic country and Haitian guages have remained the official lan- Creole depreciation as the native lan- guages of Haiti in which Haitian people guage of Haiti. The history of the Hai- Code-switch when using either French tian Creole language developed by or Haitian Creole. However, Creole has enslaved west African in the plantation become the language of depreciation, in of the Island, during the slave rebellion another term a marginalized language. for the revolution after several attempts In this study a qualitative and descriptive conspiring for their freedom. After the analysis have been carried out through embarkation of the French Colony in social medias such as Instagram, Twitter, the Island to settle from 1659 till 1804, Facebook and You-Tube to collect data French has become the language of on Haitian code-switching by observ- 73 THE DEPRECIATION OF HAITIAN CREOLE AND HAITIAN CODE SWITCHING ing one of the Haitian Ex-presidents, Mr.