Does Haitian Creole sound like a Romance language?

[Fincher]

[Ouistreham]

That sounds more African than anything else.
Just like what it is, Nigger French gibberish fucked up beyond any intelligibility.

[Xochi]

No. Haitian Creole does not sound like a Romance language. It sounds very African with some French words thrown in here and there.

[Sikeliot]

It sounds much less Latin than does Cape Verdean Creole.

[Rudel]

Nigger French sounds like Nigger French.

[Comte Arnau]

Let's simplify things in the American way: French for the black, Portuguese for the mulattoes, Spanish for the mestizos.

And Roma caput mundi.

[Guapo]

"Give me a couple of those for my 4th wife"

[moonKaySho]

I speak french, and also a Caribbean language very similar to Hatian creole, and i can tell you that the french-based creoles unfortunately have very few words coming from african languages.
Most of the vocabulary is modified old french words used with a simplified west african syntax. The words coming from Africa, or amerindian languages are generally either words regarding specific objects, dances or animals that did not have a french word for it, or very basic elements of the grammar.
So it sounds close to french if you are used to listening both of the languages.

[Rudel]

I speak french, and also a Caribbean language very similar to Hatian creole, and i can tell you that the french-based creoles unfortunately have very few words coming from african languages.
Most of the vocabulary is modified old french words used with a simplified west african syntax. The words coming from Africa, or amerindian languages are generally either words regarding specific objects, dances or animals that did not have a french word for it, or very basic elements of the grammar.
So it sounds close to french if you are used to listening both of the languages.

It's not a matter of lexicon. It's phonological. Its sounds un-French because, well, the phonology is. In the same way many would find French un-Latin.