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Trinidadian French Creole- The Flavour of a Fading Creole (Final Edit)

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Berbice Dutch Creole (Final Edit)

9:58

Silencing of the Tongues: Arawak/Lokono (Final Edit)

8:40

Ancient Tongues part 2

8:14

Ancient Tongues part 1

7:15

The Kromanti Language of the Jamaican Maroons (Final edit)

This video documents the disappearing languages of the Eastern Maroons of Moore Town, Jamaica. The languages are (i) Kromanti, a language variety related to the Akan language cluster of West Africa, and (ii) Uol Taim Patwa or 'Maroon Spirit Language', a very archaic form of English-lexicon Creole, similar in many ways to the Creole languages of Suriname. The language is presented through Mr Isaac Bernard, one the last culture bearers of the community, with a good command of these languages. The video is part of the Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages website, which is co-sponsored by the Jamaican Language Unit/Unit for Caribbean Language Research, University of the West Indies, ...

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Trinidadian French Creole- The Flavour of a Fading Creole (Final Edit)

9:38

Trinidadian French Creole- The Flavour of a Fading Creole (Final Edit)

Просмотров 34 тыс.14 лет назад

The Flavour of a Fading Creole is a short study of the last users of Trinidadian French-lexicon Creole, in the community of Paramin in Trinidad. We hear the language through the voices of its last remaining speakers, and get a taste of its culture through a presentation of Trinidadian French Creole cuisine, flavoured by the very seasoning grown by farmers in this agricultural community. The rec...

We are More Similar than We are Different (Final Edit)

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We are More Similar than We are Different (Final Edit)

Просмотров 8 тыс.14 лет назад

This video examines the similarities between the Creole languages of the Caribbean. The similarities include vocabulary items like 'pikni' and 'nyam', as well as similarities in structure across English and French lexicon Creoles. It illustrates this with snippets of interviews and conversations with speakers of Trinidadian French-lexicon Creole and Guyanese English-lexicon Creole

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Berbice Dutch Creole (Final Edit)

Просмотров 43 тыс.14 лет назад

Dote Te: Requiem for a Language is a short study of the woman who, in 2005, was the last known speaker of Berbice Dutch Creole. This language used to be widely spoken in the former Dutch colony of Berbice, part of what is now Guyana. Albertha Bell (d. 2005) was 103 years old when interviewed by Ian Robertson and a UWI linguistics research team in March 2004. As he called the names of those peop...

Silencing of the Tongues: Arawak/Lokono (Final Edit)

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Silencing of the Tongues: Arawak/Lokono (Final Edit)

Просмотров 47 тыс.14 лет назад

The video pursues the last remaining speakers of the Lokono language, otherwise known as Arawak, in Guyana. I does so on the Essequibo Coast in the area of Mainstay/Tapakuma and Wakapoa on the Pomeroon River. Of the 20,000 ethnic Arawaks in Guyana, only a diminishing number of people over 60 years of age can speak the language. This is a dying language. The video seeks to alert us to this trage...

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Ancient Tongues part 2

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Ancient Tongues part 1

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More Similar than Different part 2

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More Similar than Different part 1

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Trinidadian French Creole: Part 2 - The Flavour of a Fading Creole

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Trinidadian French Creole: Part 2 - The Flavour of a Fading Creole

Просмотров 13 тыс.14 лет назад

This video documents Trinidadian French Creole, a dying language, as it is spoken by some of its last speakers, in the community of Paramin in North Trinidad. It shows these speakers and their culture, in particular the food which they grow and their styles of cooking. This video is part of the Caribbean Indigenous and Endgangered Languages website co-sponsored by the Jamaican Language Unit/Uni...

Trinidadian French Creole: Part 1 - The Flavour of a Fading Creole

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Trinidadian French Creole: Part 1 - The Flavour of a Fading Creole

Просмотров 36 тыс.14 лет назад

This video documents Trinidadian French Creole, a dying language, as it is spoken by some of its last speakers, in the community of Paramin in North Trinidad. It shows these speakers and their culture, in particular the food which they grow and their styles of cooking. This video is part of the Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages website, co-sponsored by the Jamaican Language Unit/Uni...