Haitian French

The nasal vowels are not pronounced as in Metropolitan French: /ɑ̃/ → [ã], /ɛ̃/ → [ɛ̃], /ɔ̃/ → [õ], and /œ̃/ → [œ̃].

The typical vowel shifts make it sound very much like other regional accents of the French Caribbean and the Francophone countries of Africa.

[1] In Haiti, the French spoken in Paris is very influential, so much so that a growing number of Haitians would rather speak it as precisely as possible and pursue this by listening to Radio France Internationale and matching the somewhat conservative style of speech heard on that station.

[1] In the educated groups, French is spoken more closely to the Parisian accent.

It is within this group that a major portion of enrollment is provided for the private schools and universities.