The extensive Haitian Creole-English Dictionary (1993) compiled by Targete & Urciolo is available for free download in .pdf format from the publisher, Dunwoody Press. http://www.dunwoodypress.com/_Digital+Resource+Center.html
The introduction lays out the authors' lexicography challenges in detail and provides a bibliography.
Two interesting features of this dictionary are designed to aid English-speaking learners of Creole/Kreyol: first, nouns are listed with their associated definite article. (Definite articles, meaning approximately "the" in English, follow the noun and take multiple forms depending on the sound pattern at the end of a Kreyol noun.) Second, English cognates are followed by an asterisk (*) to draw the reader's attention to the similar vocabulary item in English and Creole/Kreyol.
Sample sentences are given, both from everyday life usage and from literature published in Creole. A list of source literature is provided.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
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