ERIC ED401713: Diksyone Angle Kreyol (English-Kreyol Dictionary).

296 Pages·1991·2.6 MB·English

by  ERIC

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Vilsaint, Fequiere
AUTHOR
Diksyone Angle Kreyol (English-Kreyol Dictionary).
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PUB DATE
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Reference Materials
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Vocabularies /Classifications /Dictionaries (134)
English; Haitian Creole
LANGUAGE
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Alphabets; Comparative Analysis; English; *Haitian
DESCRIPTORS
Creole; *Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence;
*Pronunciation; Uncommonly Taught Languages;
*Vocabulary
*Bilingual Dictionaries
IDENTIFIERS
ABSTRACT
The English-to-Haitian Creole (HC) dictionary defines
about 10,000 English words in common usage, and was intended to help
improve communication between HC native speakers and the
English-speaking community. An introduction, in both English and HC,
details the origins and sources for the dictionary. Two additional
preliminary sections provide information on HC phonetics and the
alphabet and notes on pronunciation. The dictionary entries are
arranged alphabetically. (MSE)
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Copyright e 1991 by Fequiere Vilsaint
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English-Kreyol Dictionary F.Vilsaint 1992
KOUMAN NOU FE RIVE LA
An janvye 1986 Adryen Pie Lwi nan travay Ii ak lavil
kominikasyon ant
Nouyok pou jwenn mwayen kreye
plis
ak manm gwoup
yo
twa
kiltirel
fe
lavil-la
gouvenman
konstatasyon:
Nan kominote Ayisyen-an pa gen yon diksyone ki ekri pou
a:
moun ki konn pale enpe Angle osinon enpe kreyol, manke yon
dokiman tou de gwoup yo to kab konsilte pou kominike youn ak
lat.
Le moun yo sevi ak diksyone ki egziste deja yo, gen
b:
dezako sou sa kek mo vie di, sou kijan mo yo te dwe ekri; epitou
kek fwa gen kontradiksyon ant yon liv ak yon lat. Dezako yo sob
paske moun ki ekri diksyone yo pa gen okazyon pou verifye mo
yo nan peyi Ayiti, osinon yo verifye nan kek rejyon selman.
Moun ki ale laical, le y'ap fe devwa lakay, yo pa kapab
c:
tradwi panse yo ak eksperyans yo, ni-tou paran-yo pa kapab ede
yo avek angle, men yo pa genyen yon diksyone nonplis.
Adryen ak twa lot Ayisyen etidye senk diksyone Kreyol
epi diskite ak Ayisyen nan legliz Bouklin sou sa mo sa-yo vie di.
Pandan dezan paste Lizyis Boje la reyini chak dimanch apre-midi
ak fidel Ii yo pou diskite sou diksyone yo. Apre-sa Ayisyen ki rote
Ayiti ak Kanada bay kontribisyon yo.
Ak travay sa-yo nou genyen 600 6 anrejistre sou odio
kaset. Se premye fwa jan de dokiman odio konsa egziste sou lang
kreyal. Travay-la te long, men Ii te senp. Moun-yo pran mo ki nan
diksyone, yo diskite sou sa Ii vie di. Si moun yo dake) yon mo,
nou kenbe mo-a. Si yo pa dako, ks k fwa nou retire'l, lot fwa nou
pwopoze kek chanjman.
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DIKSYONE ANGLE-KREYOL se yon dokiman anpil moun
mete ansanm pou preparel Men se travay tout Ayisyen paske
kreyal se lang tout Ayisyen. Moun ki rete Ayiti (nan N6, nan Sid,
nan Potoprens, nan Latibonit), Ozetazini (nan Nouyak, Myami,
Lwiziana, Tanpa), Kanada (Monreal) patisipe nan travay sa-a.
Mwen oganize travay sa-yo pou mwen prepare de
liv
:
a)Diksyone Angle-Krey61. b) Diksyone Krey61-Angle.
Mwen vle felisite epi tou rekonet patisipasyon kek moun
pou jan yo te motive nan travay sa-a: Adryen Pie Lwi, Lizyis
1:16jela, Andre Sen-Pre, Kawol Dabouz, Kennet Mousgrav, Gin&
Letend, .16) Pie, Klodet Simon, Andrea Pakio, Flobe Bonsi, Maria
Fekle, Mod Simonis, Frank len Okselis, Sintia Olevedi, Titi Senlo,
Jos lin Andre, Kal Teodo, Katrina Teodo. Tout moun sa-yo patisipe
pou anrejistre tep-yo.
Pou nou te kapab fe travay trye 10,000 mo, gen moun ki te ede
nou tape san pran souf. Kanta madanm mwen, Mod, II te banm
anpil ankourajman. Mwen te kontan anpil le mwen resewa let
moun yo ki te okouran de travay-sa-a. Let sa-yo te ankouraje-m
kontinye.
Moun ki tape diksyone yo : Mod Etelou, Mari Kala Jozef, Tisya
Pie, Andrena Pie, Jojo Vero, Tise Toma, Manouchka Adryen, Kala
Petrovski.
Diksyone yo baze sou travay lot moun te fe anvan
nou.
F6 nou felisite epitou rekonet travay Albe Vadman ak ekip Ii
nan
Enstiti krey6I inivesite Indiana, ki ekri " Haitian Creole-English-
French Dictionary", 1981.; travay A. Bentolila ak ekip-ii ki ekri
diksyonne Kreyal-Franse" 1976 ed. Karayib; L. Pelman ki ekri
"Dictionnaire Creole-Francais, 1976 CICM ed., PAP; Pradel Ponpilis
ki ekri " Lexique Creole Francais", From tez nan Inivesite Pari
;
Edne Janti, "Diksyone Kreyor 1989 ed. La Presse Evangelique.
Se liv sa yo nou Itilize nan anket yo. Nou rekonet eft) tout
moun
ti patisipe nan verifikasyon yo. Nou di yon mesi espesyal
pou
Dokte Valdman, pou pemisyon 11 ba-nou pou'n Itilize anpil
egzanp
nan liv 11-a.
Krey61 se lang 6 milion Ayisyen, liv sa-a se pou yo tout.
Kominikasyon se komansman sikse, liv sa-a fet pou ede
moun ki
pale Krey6I kominike ak moun ki pale angle. Li let tou
pou moun
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ki pale Angle pou ede yo kominike ak moun ki pale Kreyal. Si sa
fet nou rive jwenn rev nou.
Liv sa-a se yon zouti pou moun kap etidye, kap travay, kap ekri.
Se pou Ayisyen, moun ki renmen Ayisyen, moun kap travay pou
Ayisyen.
Li ta enposib rive la si nou pat gen anpil ankourajman
pwofese Ayisyen tankou Ji lb?) Ipolit, ak Leons Dewonvil de moun
sa-yo gen anpil dedikas pou ankouraje Orin Ayisyen gen sikse
lekol epi tou yin yon lide nan kominote yo. Li ta enposib tou si
moun tankou J. C. Bona nan IPN, P. Ponpilis, A. Vadman, Feliks
Moriso Lewa, legliz Kato lik ak ban nouvel, legliz Metodis ak lot
legliz pwotestan yo, ak tandat, pat fe wout yo to fe yo pou ekri
kreyal.
MESI ANPIL
Nou pran anpil tan pou prepare liv sa-a si gen ere nou ta renmen
komante sou yo, nap korije yo. Moun ki nan EDUCA VISION,
tampa, Florida ban nou anpil ed nan koreksyon.
F. Vilsen
Tanpa, out 1991
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INTRODUCTION
In January 1986 Adrien Pierre-Louis, in a project to identify means
for Improving or creating links between cultural community and the
city of New-York reported several bottlenecks in communication
channels. Three of them are relevant to our purpose:
a:
In the Haitian Community, there is no reference dictionary
designed in such a way that people with limited Creole or limited
English could use to access one another.
b:
The existing dictionaries sometimes do not agree on
spelling, on meaning and occasionally show inconsistencies.
These problems are associated with lack or limited field validation
of these documents.
c:
Creole speaking students while doing their homework lack
the vocabulary to express their thoughts and experience in
English; furthermore parents cannot help them. A comprehensive
dictionary could therefore fill the void.
Adrien and three colleagues commit themselves to study
five dictionaries on hand. They set up to study the entries with
Haitians living in New-York
For two years, Pastor Lysius Borgella
.
meets every sunday afternoon with church volunteers to study
those
entries
discuss
meanings and
their
record
group
conclusions on audio tape. Later on, Haitian living within Haiti and
in Montreal, Canada contributed to this effort.
It exists now a
collection of 600 hours of discussion on audio tape. This is the
biggest collection of this kind in Creole. The work was tedious
though simple. Entries from different documents were discussed.
When there is consensus, we confirm the entries; when there is
no
agrement, the entries were either deleted or amended.
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DIKSYONE ANGLE-KREYOL is an active effort of several
people living in Haiti (North, South, Port -Au- Prince and Artibonite);
In the United States (New-York, Miami, Louisiana, Tampa, West
Palm); in Canada (Montreal). Above all it is a Haitian collective
work, Creole is the language of all Haitians... I organized, funded
and coordinate the actions, collect the data and prepare two
documents: a) English -Kreyd dictionary and b) Kreyd-English
dictionary.
The level of participation and motivation was noteworthy,
I want therefore to acknowledge the following people: Adrien
Pierre-Louis, Lysius Borgella, Andre Saint-Preux, Carole W.
Lussier-Letendre,
Ginette
Musgrave,
Darbouse, Kenneth
B.
Georges Pierre, Claudette T. Simon, Andrea C. Paquiot, Flaubert
Boncy, Maria Hernandez-Fequiere, Maud L Simonis, Franklyn
Occelus, Cynthia Olivedi, Timothy Saint Lot, Jocelyne Andre, Carl
Theodore, Kathryna Theodore. Without these people the audio
tapes and this document would be unimaginable.
Several previous works inspired and in some cases serve
as basis for this dictionary. We recognize the work of:
Albert Valdman et al: "Haitian Creole-English-French Dictionary"
1981, Creole Institute, Indiana University.
Bentolila et al " Ti Diksyonne Kreyd-Franse" 1976, ed. Caraibes.
Louis Peleman, "Dictionnaire Creole-Francais", 1976, CICM ed.,
Bon Native!, Port-Au-Prince.
Pradel Pompilus, "Lexique Creole Francais" 1958, These de
I'Universite de Paris.
Edner Jeanty, "Diksyone Kreybr, 1989, La presse Evangelique ed.
These documents are used in most of our surveys. Our
thanks go also to the multitude of interviewees. Several example
sentenses are extracted from Dr Valdman's book, used here with
permission.
Generating and editing 10,000 entries is an intensive task
that was possible only with the help of diligent typists, constant
encouragement from my wife, Maude and stimulating letters from
people that knew about the project.
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Several people cooperated to type this document: Maude
Heurtelou, Marie Karla Joseph, Andrena Pierre, Jojo R. Vero,
Soeurette Thomas, Manouchka Adrien, Karla Petrovsky.
Our thanks also go to several professors in the Haitian
Community abroad such as Gilbert Hippo lite, Leonce Desronvil for
their encouragements
. These two people commit themselves to
see that our teenagers not only succeed in school but also acquire
the tools to become leaders In their community...To old and new
pioneers like Pompilus, J.C. Bernard, A. Valdman, Felix Morisseau
Leroy, The Catholic Church, in
Haiti with Bon Nouvel, The
Methodist Church.
Communication is the first step toward success. We
prepare these books to facilitate communication between Creole
speaking and English speaking (and the other way around). It
should be used by students, workers, leaders, writers etc. It is
dedicated to Haitians, their friends and those that are part of
Haitian struggles.
longer than
took
to
complete these
It
expected
dictionaries. The people at Educa Vision did a good job of
proofreading; If you find any error please let us know, we will
correct in coming edition.
The text for this document is prepared and processed with
Word Perfect 5.1; the graphics with Corel Draw 2.0
The master
.
printed on HP LaserJet II
This Dictionary is also available in electronic form, for IMB
XT-AT as well as Mac environment. For those who write in Kreyal,
we have a Kreyal spell checker compatible with Word Perfect 5.0
, 5.1 and Word Perfect for Windows 1.0
Congratulations to you the reader for acquiring this dictionary.
F. Vilsaint
Tampa, aug. 1991
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