No matter which indicators you pick, Haiti has an appalling record on education.
One recent report rated it as the third worst place in the world, after Somalia and Eritrea, to go to school.
Continue reading the main story A brief history of Haitian Creole
It emerged towards the end of the 18th Century as slaves from Africa began mixing African languages with French
Lots of the vocabulary comes from French, but the grammar is quite different
Spelling was standardised in 1979
A law called the Bernard Reform was introduced in the early 1980s, designed to boost Creole in schools
The 1987 constitution states that French and Creole are both official languages in Haiti
It's estimated that about one-third of children never enrol at primary school, and only about one in 10 complete secondary school.