HAITIAN CREOLE
ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

The Haitian Creole alphabet has twenty-nine letters. Each letter in a word is pronounced, and the last syllable of a word is usually the one that is stressed.

LETTER PRONUNCIATION
ashort a sound as in apple
anshort a with nasal tone
bsame as English
chsh sound as in share
dsame as English
elong a sound as in play
enshort e sound with nasal tone
èshort e sound as in fed
fsame as English
gsame as English
hch as in chop
iee as in feed
js sound as in treasure
ksame as English
lsame as English
msame as English
nsame as English
olong o sound as in hope
onlong o with nasal tone
ouoo sound as in school
òaw sound as in paw
psame as English
rsame as English
ssame as English
tsame as English
uioo-ee sound as in Louie
vsame as English
wsame as English
ysame as y in yellow
zsame as English