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Preferred term

hvcHaitian Vodoun Culture Language  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Haitian Vodoun Culture Language is an unclassified language used in Haiti. It is also known as Langay and Langaj (meaning literally "language"). This language is used for religion, song, and dance purposes (it is used as a second language only). In addition to borrowings from Haitian Creole French, French, Wolof and other languages, it may also have loanwords from Amerindian languages.

ISO 639-3 code

  • hvc

Notation

  • hvc

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/hvc

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