Gullah Or Sea Island Creole English

One cause was that englosh men use natives as there slaves, but there were lots of negitives with having them as slave including there knowledge of the land so it was easy for them to escape and know where there going and there there population was very high so they could over throw there land owner and there fighting skills when most english men had little skill, but africans how ever they did not have knowledge of the land was limited so

This paper will discuss on the language used widely by Ali G. After reading and watching his video, it is quite apparent that he always used the Jamaican Creole to communicate with people. Basically, the section below will cover the phonological, lexical and grammatical analysis of Ali G speech on the basis of his video. Sebba (2007) mentioned that

Futhermore, at first slaves were both Indians and Africans. Since the Natives started getting sick and dying from diseases the colonist spread, the colonist started to import people from Africa. The colonist have not explored most of Africa. There were more people that they could use as slaves and the people

Have you ever thought about how to learn about Chaldean culture? This paper will provide you the reader with this knowledge. I will discuss Chaldean traditions and how my family have brought them to the United States. The Chaldean tradition derives from the ancient civilization and though it has little change my family is very fortunate to practice this unique culture. We as a family lived in the Middle East (Iraq “majority”, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran …), and nowadays are spread all over the world after the recent wars and challenges in the region that they live, especially those of Iraq. The Chaldean community like myself have migrated to the United States and live in two major Cities (Detroit in Michigan, and San Diego in California. The majority of Chaldeans like my family and I that have lived in USA came from the Northern part of Mesopotamia in a small village called, “Tilkef”. I am a Chaldeans like many of my relatives that are Christian Catholics, and we speak a language of Aramaic (The language that Jesus was speaking), which is also called Chaldean. The Aramaic is one of the oldest, continually spoken languages in the world. People think that Arabic and Chaldean languages are the same thing, actually they are nothing alike, and you will not be able to understand Arabic just because you speak Chaldean. I can speak both of these two different languages, and the use of this language is only because the Chaldean used to live with the Arab people for hundreds of

The Africans, on the other hand, were also forced from their homes and into slave labor. The English captured Africans bringing them to the New World on the Middle Passage. The Africans were brought to the New World as a form free labor to help build the colonies. The English did use the Indians for labor, but found it hard to work with them and they were susceptible to illness and were not as strong as the Africans. The Africans suffered through sickness and lack of understanding secondary to the language barriers with the English. They also had problems

(1) The use of natural dialect can be seen throughout the slave narrative interviews through words and phrases used that were common during the period of slavery, but are not used today. One example can be seen in the dialect used by former slave Mama Duck, “Battlin stick, like dis. You doan know what a battling stick is? Well, dis here is one.” Through incomplete sentences and unknown words the natural dialect of the time can be seen. Unfamiliar words such as shin-plasters, meaning a piece of paper currency or a promissory note regarded as having little or no value. Also, geechees, used to describe a class of Negroes who spoke Gullah. Many examples can be seen throughout the “Slave Narratives”

Gullah has impacted American speech, and West African religious dances and songs heavily influenced jazz; not to mention the contribution of the banjo and bongo to American culture

It was a hot, muggy day like any other in southern Louisiana, right near the Atchafalaya Basin, and between the run-down gas stations and Spanish Moss-covered trees, there was something buzzing in the air, mingling with the hum of the mosquitoes. It was Zydeco, tricking out from the radios that were scattered around the rest station. Between the bars of the music, Louisiana Creole (a language with French, African, Spanish, and American Indian roots) intertwined with guitars and

The people of the New World were thrust into a hindrance as their previous slaves, the natives, were dying off because of European diseases and indentures were few once they learned that moving to the New World as an indenture surely meant an early death. In the 1400s, Portugal had begun to search for gold in Africa as the slaves began to die off and become far-fetched in the New World. When Portugal decided that they would use Africans as slaves, that changed everything for everyone. The plantation owners in the New World now had a more reliable work force that was cheap and would keep their profits flowing. Africans were soon being captured and sent over to the Atlantic world, be the hundreds, to become slaves, leaving their homeland

Because of imperialism spread of languages around the world started to happen. An example of this is that now tribes can communicate with other foreign countries, this is good because now we can understand tribes and what they are trying to say to us. Also other foreign countries can communicate with each other, like africans can now learn and speak english because a lot of Africa’s land in taken over by great britain. A very good thing about the spread of languages is that we can learn new languages ourselves and speak to the countries we have

Americans believed that since they were the conquerors of North America they got to decide the language without even considering the diverse cultures. The slaves that were brought to America were stripped of their culture by them being banned from speaking their native dialect. While Bell Hooks analyzes the purpose and history of Standard english she found that, “Standard English is not the speech of exile. It is the language of conquest and domination; in the United States, it is the mask which hides the loss of so many tongues, all those sounds of diverse, native communities we will never hear, the speech of the Gullah, Yiddish, and so many other unremembered tongues” (Hooks). English is not the language that started because of a group of people that were

Each colony created their own language which they spoke following this the languages continued to evolve and develop. Interestingly, there is no one universal English language or world standard of English, there are diverse varieties and accents differentiating each form of English spoken.

African American English is diverging from Standard American English. As shown in Do You Speak American (2005), AAE originates from the time of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. English was introduced to trade ports in Africa by colonialists, resulting in the creation of pidgin - a mixture of English and African languages that is still in use today. More recently, African Americans who have moved from the South to the North have been more segregated, creating greater divergence between AAE and SAE. As many African Americans maintain ties to the South, such as continued contact with friends or family in the south, similarities between AAE and southern dialects remain. However, each group have selected features that are important, such as maintaining ‘r’ in the North or keeping certain features as a way of preserving history, resulting in different dialect patterns between the North and the South to develop.

The slaves of the British American colonies were mainly from African west coast. It is important to note that slavery was present in African communities long before white traders sent African slaves to Europe and

The evolution of Caribbean Literature started centuries before the Europeans graced these shores and continues to develop today. Quite noticeably, it developed in a manner which transcended all language barriers and cultures. Today the languages of the Caribbean are rooted in that of the colonial powers - France, Britain, Spain and Holland - whose historical encounters are quite evident throughout the region. The cosmopolitan nature of the region's language and cultural diversity develop from the mixture of European languages with Native American languages (mainly the Caribs and Arawaks) in the formation of creoles and local patois (hybrid languages) and those of Africans brought to the Caribbean as