Although no textual record exists of Haitian-Creole at its earliest stages of development from French, is derived from French (written ), which is the normal French contraction of (that, written ) and the copula (is, written ) (a form of the verb ).
Although no textual r,ecord exists of Haitian-Creole at its earliest stages of development from French, is derived from French (written ), which is the nor,mal French contraction of (that, written ) and the copu.la (is, written ) (a form of the verb ).