Yes, you will find them in the Haitian Creole language just like you find them in French... a period at the end of a statement; a question mark at the end of a question; commas to connect words, clauses, lists, you may see apostrophes or dashes with contractions such as manman'l, l'ap, se manje li-a; you will find the hyphen with names a lot of times like in Mari-Lwiz, Jan-Mak, or Jan-Pòl; etc...
exclamation points - pwen esklamasyon
comma- vigil
hyphen - trèdinyon
dash – tirè
semicolon – pwen vigil
colon – de pwen
apostrophes - apostwòf
quotation marks - gimè; (quote … end quote – ant gimè, nan mitan gimè)
parentheses – parantèz, (in parentheses – ouvè parantèz … fèmen parantèz)
commercial at- awobaz
ellipsis - pwen sispansyon
pipe – ba vetikal
forward slash - ba oblik
backslash - ba oblik envès
brackets ([...]) - kwochè
brackets ({...}) - akolad
Haitian Creole ↔ English Reference, Look up Haitian Creole and English Words
periods - pwen, pwen final
question
mark - pwen entèwogasyonexclamation points - pwen esklamasyon
comma- vigil
hyphen - trèdinyon
dash – tirè
semicolon – pwen vigil
colon – de pwen
apostrophes - apostwòf
quotation marks - gimè; (quote … end quote – ant gimè, nan mitan gimè)
parentheses – parantèz, (in parentheses – ouvè parantèz … fèmen parantèz)
commercial at- awobaz
ellipsis - pwen sispansyon
pipe – ba vetikal
forward slash - ba oblik
backslash - ba oblik envès
brackets ([...]) - kwochè
brackets ({...}) - akolad
Haitian Creole ↔ English Reference, Look up Haitian Creole and English Words
In French, many punctuation marks are preceded by a space ('!' '?' ';' ':')... is this also true in Haitian Creole?
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