Haitian Creole language (kreyòl ayisyen), often calle simply Creole or Kreyòl (pronounced [kʁejɔl]), is a language spoken in Haiti by about 8.5 million people (as of 2005), which is nearly the entire population, and via emigration, about 3.5 million speakers who live in other countries, including Canada, the United States, Venezuela, France, and many Caribbean nations, especially the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the Bahamas.