Translate “Water” in Haitian Creole – How to pronounce “Dlo” in Haitian Creole by Swans Paul

How to say “water” in Haitian Creole. How to pronounce “dlo” in Haitian Creole by Swans Paul.

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0:00 How to pronounce “Water” in Haitian Creole

0:32 French origin of this Haitian Creole word

0:44 Water is “Dlo” in Haitian Creole

1:14 Where does the Haitian word “Dlo” come from?

1:22 Water is “eau” in French

1:44 From French “de l’eau” to Haitian Creole “dlo”

1:57 Creolization Process: From French “la rue / the street” to Haitian Creole “lari / street”

2:47 Haitianization process: From French “l’église / the church” to Haitian Creole “legliz / church”

3:34 Translate Haitian Creole documentary into English

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How to pronounce “Water” in Haitian Creole

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How do you say water

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in Haitian Creole?

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Hi,

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this is Swans

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from yourahitiantranslator.com,

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and as a Haitian Creole voice

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over specialist

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and because Google

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is not

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offering the voice option

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for Haitian translations,

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it is a pleasure

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to share with you

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some tips

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on how to

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properly pronounce Haitian words.

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So let’s get started.

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In this video, I will show you,

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I will share two things with you.

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First,

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how do you say, how to say the word

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“water” in Haitian Creole?

French origin of this Haitian Creole word

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And I will also explain

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the origin,

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the French origin of, of, of

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this very word.

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So let’s get started.

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So how do you say

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water in Haitian Creole?

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It is very simple.

Water is “Dlo” in Haitian Creole

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You say “dlo”.

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One more time, “dlo”.

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One last time, “dlo”.

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So that’s how you say

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water in Haitian Creole.

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And how do you spell it?

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You spell it as

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“D” as in David “L”

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as in low and “O” as in Ohio.

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So it’s “D-L-O”,

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which makes “dlo”

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in Haitian Creole. Right.

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And now where does, where does,

Where does the Haitian word “Dlo” come from?

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where does the word come from?

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It comes from the French.

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It comes from “de l’eau”.

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Because in French,

Water is “eau” in French

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the word water is “EAU”,

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which is spelt as “E-A-U”.

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But I suppose that back,

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back in the days

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my ancestors would have heard,

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“de l’eau”.

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But if you say it very quickly,

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“de l’eau”, “de l’eau”

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can quickly become “dlo”,

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“de l’eau”, “de l’eau”, “dlo”.

From French “de l’eau” to Haitian Creole “dlo”

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So it went from “de l’eau”, “some

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water” to “dlo”,

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which means by itself

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now “water”.

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We have a lot of words in Haitian

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Creole like that.

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We have like, for example,

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in French,

Creolization Process: From French “la rue / the street” to Haitian Creole “lari / street”

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you would say “the

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street” would be “la rue”.

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That’s French.

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So “the, la” and “rue, street”.

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But in Haitian

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Creole,

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the word

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street alone would be “lari”.

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So we would be combining

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the definite

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article “la”

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with the word itself “rue”,

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and we would be dropping the “U”

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sound to

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to collect, to put an “I” sound.

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So “la rue”

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is French for “the street”.

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“Lari” is,

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Is Haitian Creole for “street”.

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Okay.

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So this is the process

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of creolization a little bit.

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Not all the time,

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but this is very common.

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Same thing goes for church,

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for example, you know, in French.

Haitianization process: From French “l’église / the church” to Haitian Creole “legliz / church”

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The church would be “l’église”.

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Okay.

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So it’s two, it’s two words; the

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the definite article

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an apostrophe, for “le” or “la”.

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And then you have “église”.

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Okay.

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So “église” by itself

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would be church,

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but “the church”

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would be “l’église”

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now in Haitian Creole.

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We put all of it together.

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We just say “legliz”.

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So what was two words

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in French becomes

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one word in Haitian Creole.

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It doesn’t always happen

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like that, but it is part

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of the creolization process.

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Okay.

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Thank you so much for your time.

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Until the next video.