Can people that speak cajun creole understad hatians or people frim france?

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Rillifane

The terms you are using in your question are often mistaken and that makes it a bit diffiuclt to answer.

"Cajun" and "Creole" are really mutally exclusive terms.

Cajuns are the primarily white descendants of French Canadian exiles from Acadia in Canada.

Creoles (In America) are a people of mixed Spanish, French and African origins who arose in New Orleans.

Creole also is used to describe one of the two official languages of Haiti which is a mixture of French, Native America, African, Portuguese and Spanish. (The other official language is French).

The French spoken by Cajuns is is a slightly archaic form which is not at all difficult for a standard French speaker or a Quebecois to understand.

Hatian Creole is significantly different than standard French (which is why the Hatian government sees it as a second language) and while many individual words may be close to standard French, others can be quite different. As in many countries where there are two official languages, many people speak both and I suspect that when speaking to foreigners or appearing in the media, Hatians will simply speak French. However, please note that Hatian accented French is NOT the same thing as Hatian Creole so this is not a matter of simply adjusting but actually switching languages.

Eclipsepearl

Yes! I'm not even a native French speaker and I understand them.

Granted, when they talk to French people they try to "adjust" their speech, for example, pick words they know we understand. When they're together...it's hard. I can't follow along very well.

QuÃ©bec and elsewhere in Francophone Caribbean are the same. They also can make themselves more understandable when they're interviewed on French TV, etc.

abuela Nany

Cajun is a deformation of the word Acadian..... Cajun french descends from the french spoken by the people who came to inhabit Acadia (Canada) in the seventeenth century...And later moved south to Louisiana... It is an archaic version of the french language, so basically it would probably be understood by other people who speak french, though with the added difficulty of the different local pronunciation.

ace_christian_serraon815

i don't hink, but i think that the people wil have a certain idea about what cajuns are talking about, since they may have same root words.

SolarRain

They can understand some, but Cajun is kind of a slang type of French, so it is a bit different, but very similar if that makes any sense.

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