Haitian Creole is based on a language in the Indo-European family.
English language . 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 . Until the late 20thcentury , Haitian presidents spoke only French to their fellow citizens , and until the 2000s , all instruction at Haitian elementary schools was in French , a foreign language to most of the students .