English to Louisiana Creole translator

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Google Translate does not offer Louisiana Creole. This translator asks Google for Haitian Creole, the closest language it does offer, and then rewrites that into Louisiana Creole with a documented set of rules: word swaps, sound changes and grammar. It is a rule-based rewrite, not a human translation, so check anything that matters with a speaker.

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42.0 on 97 real sentences; Google's Haitian Creole as is: 31.9.

The score is chrF: how closely the output matches what real Louisiana Creole speakers wrote, character by character, from 0 to 100. Tested on 97 held-out sentences from recorded speakers (APiCS: Neumann 1985, Valdman 1998).

42.0score on 97 real sentences
31.9Google's Haitian Creole as is
725word swaps
31grammar and sound rules

How the rewrite works

Google's Haitian Creole rewritten into Louisiana Creole (Kouri-Vini) by grammar rules, evidence-backed word swaps and sound correspondences, with French restoring the r Haitian lost.

The rules are a plain file anyone can read, test and copy. Every translation shows Google's Haitian Creole underneath, so you can see exactly what the rules changed.

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