How do you view the attempts to revive the language in general? Is the language an important part of your identity? How do you view organisations such as CODOFIL (Council for the Development of French in Louisiana) who aim to encourage greater use of the language?
I'm just a layman, so forgive me if this question is so stupid it makes your blood boil. If you look at English, it looks like the odd one out with respect to other Germanic languages. It has comparatively simple grammar (no gendered nouns, SVO, almost complete absence of cases, relatively little inflection) while having a vocabulary that's all over the place and very open to borrowing from other languages. Could it be that modern English was born out of a Proto-Germanic creole?
I had a conversation with someone from Martinique in Creole ,surprisingly it was the sane and we understood each other minus the small differences.
I have heard it referred to as creole and cajun, but I am pretty sure that I have heard it referred to by another term. If you know what this term is please let me know!
IS it true that there are almost non-Spanish-based creole languages in South America?
...Any number of Spanish-based pidgins have arisen due to contact between Spanish and other languages, especially in America, such as the Panare Trade Spanish used by the Panare people of Venezuela[1] and Roquetas Pidgin Spanish used by agricultural workers in Spain. However, few Spanish pidgins ever creolized....
I am looking at a List of creole languages and there are many of them that are English-based and French-based such as:
...Belizean Creole, English-based creole spoken in Belize, Jamaican Patois, English-based creole, spoken in Jamaica, Nigerian Creole, English based creole or pidgin spoken in Nigeria...Haitian Creole, French-based, an official language of Haiti, Cameroonian French Creole, French-based creole spoken in Cameroon...etc.
There are native languages in South America but almost non Spanish based creole languages:
Quechua 7,735,620 Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Colombia
Guarani 6,162,790 Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina
Aymara 1,677,100 Bolivia, Peru
Wayuu 416,000 Venezuela, Colombia
Mapudungun 258,410 Chile, Argentina
https://youtu.be/1cvjdfyISiI
i just want to know is there such thing a Australian aboriginal based pidgin and creole language spoken in Australia like in the Americas there is north american native based pidgin language name chinook jargon or chinuk wawa?
Could someone from, for example, Portugal communicate with and understand someone from Brazil with no relative difficulty?
Edit: *standard instead of pure
I can't imagine the bots picking up "bad words" in "Australian Aboriginese". Is it time to learn Finnish, Icelandic, Namibian German, Zulu?
Basically, taking Spanish for example, over time people who spoke Latin mixed words with locals in Spain, and eventually became a "Roman dialect" and then a creole language.
Hello r/AskTheCaribbean ! I hope you're all doing well.
I am a PhD student working on expanding technology to include creole languages, many (most?!?!) of which are spoken in your lovely part of the world! By "language technology", i mean stuff like "Google Translate" or "iPhone's Siri".
Buuuut before I start making technologies that nobody asked for, I am trying to figure out what speakers of different creole languages actually want and need. So, I have written a very brief survey, which should only take ~5 minutes of your time. It would be immensely helpful to receive your responses!
English survey: https://forms.gle/Tz5mpD7QxTK9z79r6
French survey: https://forms.gle/ByqnYzA5X1fXthw76
If you have any questions/comments for me here, feel free to respond, and I’ll get back to you Asap. I'm also happy to have some discussion here, too!
To the moderators -- if this post isn't OK, let me know and I can resubmit a new thread that is more reddit-y/discussion-y.
Thank you so much!
if you count to 80 you say "four twenties" 😎
I got thinking about indigenous American languages and how a portion have been preserved along the centuries, despite all the massacres, forced acculturation, so on and so forth.
But I realised I could not think of any particular case of such a linguistic "survivorship" among the African diaspora in the Americas.
I realise the situations (even between such wide "umbrella" terms) are not exactly analogous, but have African languages been preserved in such a way? If not, has there been studies/speculation as to why?
Hello r/asklatinamerica! Hope you're all doing well~
I am a PhD student working on expanding technology to include creole languages, many of which are spoken in your lovely part of the world! By "language technology", i mean stuff like "Google Translate" or "iPhone's Siri". By creole languages, I mean those cool local languages spoken in places like Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas, Antigua, Aruba, Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, French Guiana, and Guyana! (I will cross-post this with r/AskTheCaribbean too)
Buuuut before I start making technologies that nobody asked for, I am trying to figure out what speakers of different creole languages actually want and need. So, I have written a very brief survey, which should only take ~5 minutes of your time. It would be immensely helpful to receive your responses!
English survey: https://forms.gle/Tz5mpD7QxTK9z79r6
French survey: https://forms.gle/ByqnYzA5X1fXthw76
If you have any questions/comments for me, feel free to respond, and I’ll get back to you Asap.
At the moderators -- let me know if this survey post is not okay. Otherwise, I can delete this post, and resubmit another more discussion-y/reddit-y forum type thing. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
