The Kromanti Language of the Jamaican Maroons - Part 2

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, Mona, and UNESCO. http://www.caribbeanlanguages.org.jm

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• 'uol taim patwa'
• Creole
• suriname
• jamaica
• 'Moore Town'
• akan
• endangered
• indigenous
• UNESCO
• 'Jamaican Language Unit'
• JLU
• west africa
• linguistics

[mba107]

hhmm... 9ja tribe, him for blow the horn nah, since him sabi am.

[Killayut]

@phantom45m You right.

[phantom45m]

@Killayut this to me is proof that blacks of won the war of slavery because the euros wanted to change our ways but as you can see they were preserved big up

[Killayut]

The Nigerian government and Ghanaian Government should quickly provide homes for these people. This is a clear fact that they are Nigerians, Ghanaians and Camerounians. By the way Mi sabi say Jamaican people dem ah same people with my people. . ( That's how we say it in Southern Nigeria and South Western Cameroun )

[Dezgang]

Yu Sabi mean exactly the same thing in Surinam!! Damn...

[moneyvillage]

In Suriname, the Kromanti is a sacred language of the Kromanti gods, from the Kromanti tribe in Africa. But also some marroons in the interior of Suriname speak the Kromanti.

[owusuwaa24]

I think the krumanti has alot of nigerian english pronounciation..unlike the accompong's language thats very similar to twi...the ahsanti language

[Pikiwoyo]

Blessedd nuff love to the person who posted this..I myself is a Marroon from Surinam and he speaks our laguage Saamaka some words are the same only slighty different pronouncation but man what a blessed people we be no matter were of the globe slavery scattered us we are Africans this video proves it even more...The Kromati language is universal!!!

[AllNationsAngel2B]

@tiahband

And, you are more qualified to discuss the linguistic origin of his Patois than the linguist who spoke in Part 1?

Weh yuh ah chat bout fufool fah?

[tiahband]

nuff a unu fufool, im jus a chat patois and im ole