Haitian Creole is based on a language in the Indo-European family.
English [ ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ ] is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the global lingua franca . It is the most widely spoken Germanic language , accounting for at least 70 % of speakers of this Indo-European branch . French ( le français [ lə fʁɑ̃sɛ ] or la langue française [ la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz ] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family . Haitian Creole . It is a creole language based largely on 18th century French with influences from Portuguese , Spanish , English , Taíno , and West African languages .