The U.S. Virgin Islands is predominantly an English speaking island however the most popular

In a way Dominicans and Afro-American languages are the same because of the content of their language. As being African slaves, Dominicans and African-Americans don't speak their second language correctly. In the United States today there are Dominicans and Afro-Americans. Some American Dominicans speaks English, with slang as the Afro-Americans do. The African slaves couldn't pronounce the words of their newfound language. They made other words that they could relate to with one another. Both Dominicans and Afro-Americans did this.

Louisiana is a place with a lot of history and some say the best food in the world. "Creole" is a word that refers to the French colonists who came to Louisiana in the 18th century. Creole food are from French foods because that's what the colonists would made for themselves. Since Louisiana is a hot and wet climate they had to change some of their cooking to use food sources they were available for them to use. Since settlers from other countries came to Louisiana their food also influenced Creole cooking.

Puerto Rico’s linguistic background is strongly defined by Spanish and English. Most Puerto Ricans speak both languages fluently and use both in everyday life such as; work, travel and communication.

There are distinctive patterns of language use among African Americans that arose as creative responses to the hardships imposed on the African American community. Slave-owners forced African Americans to create a language that allowed them to communicate effectively with one another. Slaves were not allowed the opportunity to read and write because most slave owners thought they would find a way to buy their freedom if they knew how to read and write. Significant numbers of people still speak some of the Creole languages they used to communicate so many years ago.

Economics had played a big part of the Creoles goal to succeed. The goal was for the Creoles to gain more power economically. In documents C & D, both explain what had happened. In Document C it stated, “We in America are perhaps the first to be forced by our own government to sell out products artificially

One reason Creoles led the fight for independence in Latin America is they wanted to create a stable government. In The Independence of Latin America by Leslie Bethell, it states “The Creoles were intensely aware of social pressure from below and they strove to keep coloured people at a distance… white superiority was not unchallenged...” (Doc. F) This is a secondary source that was writing in 1987 and has a position that was negative towards white people. The quote shown above demonstrates the constant feeling and nervousness that Americanos had at the time. They had these feeling due to the fact that the

This language was a multitude of other languages put together so slaves could understand one another and its roots still linger to this day but in different forms. These hardships however led to runaway slaves and rebellions. “While never a large percentage of the slave population in any period before Civil War the, slaves, by running away, disrupted work routines on farms and plantations, undermined discipline among slaves, and exasperated managers of households in both the countryside and the cities.” (Campbell) While few slaves successfully escaped there wasn’t any work for them as they were black and outcast.

Baron starts with one of the most controversial legislations that the Congress has considered, making English the official language of the United States. In order to unite the nation and save money from translating documents to other languages. Shortly after the author shows the that today over ninety-seven percent of the people in the US speak English without the need of such legislation, and how many of the immigrants today are learning English at a fast rate. Reminding the reader of the current movement of “encouraging everyone” to be bilingual will bring great benefits in the future.

Reasonably measure of individuals can contend that numerous dialects are talked in the Unified States, however English is without no question is the national dialect. Our establishing fathers fabricated this nation by composing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in English. Be that as it may, I do trust that the instructive framework here in the Unified States needs to educate the understudies a moment dialect, particularly Spanish since it is the second most talked dialect.

Christopher Columbus was determined to find new trade routes to India and so, in 1492, after gaining permission he set out in order to accomplish this task. However, what Christopher Columbus would actually encounter was not new trades routes to India, but a whole “new” world. What exists, however, when you travel to a new country is the possibility of a language barrier between you and the native individuals. This barrier existed when Christopher Columbus first made contact with the native indigenous inhabitants. Luckily, letters from Columbus’s first voyage have survived, and have offered a look into his encounters with the different languages of the indigenous people. Through his accounts a question arises: how does Christopher Columbus describe language and communication is his late 15th century letters? In this essay, I will discuss how Columbus’s use and description of language and communication was a way to show superiority among those Indigenous people he encountered.

“Although not all communication is linguistic, language is by far the most powerful and versatile medium of communication, all known human groups possess language” (Gumperz 1968). Chamorro is an Austronesian language spoken by about fifty-thousand people, in the Marina Islands. It is the language of Micronesia with the largest number of speakers and one of Micronesia’s two most endangered languages. The Chamorro language is spoken in the Marina Islands and by many Chamorro’s in the western states of the United States and has been a powerful symbol of cultural identity for more than three hundred years. In my first research paper, I focused on the present-day Chamorro language and Guam. Throughout this research I will dive into globalization and revitalization of the Chamorro language as a whole. We will take a step back into time and develop an understanding of where the Chamorro language thrived from and how to keep it alive.

Bartholomew just landed at the Henry E. Rohlsen airport in St. Croix. Tortola is the main island in the area of the caribbean called the US Virgin islands. Bartholomew and his wife, Makaela, are now in a race against time. They quickly scramble to exit the airport with all of their luggage in hand. A van was waiting for them at the airport. The first thing they experience about the virgin islands is that they have a very interesting accent. Even though they speak in english, it is a dialect that any normal english speaker can not understand. Bartholomew tells the driver, “to the Moorings dock” and the driver starts the engine and takes off. They drive past the heart of the city and pass many beautiful shops on the way. Some shops consist of colorful

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

Pidgins and creoles are both languages that occur when two people of different languages are communicating (p.232). In order to define a pidgin, it is important to look at the process in which a pidgin develops. When contact between speakers of two different languages occurs and they begin to create ways of communication through words and phrases, pre-pidgin is developing. A pidgin develops as a new language when the original group or several groups of people begin using the pre-pidgin to communicate as the common language. The pidgin is then being used as the lingua franca (p. 233). Depending on the use of the language, there is also a restricted pidgin and expanded pidgin. Restricted pidgin is only used when necessary for communication and typically has small vocabulary and little grammar. Expanded pidgin is a pidgin that is used everyday and in different entities such as religion or the government. This type of pidgin has an expanded vocabulary and grammar. On the other hand, a creole is a pidgin that children learn and use as their first language. With children learn the language as their first, it will expand to community usage. Gramatics are much more complex in a creole as is the vocabulary of the language (p.234). There are differences between a pidgin and creole that can be defined. A pidgin is spoken between people of different languages with less vocabulary and

The article explains where the Haitian Creole language comes from and by which dialects was it inspired. When African slaves were imported on the island they had no effective method to communicate between them. People spoke different languages since the slaves were form different part of West Africa, and so they had to create their own system of communication. The article also gives the main languages that influence Haitian Creole and how it finally became a nationally recognized language, in