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

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/Unit for Caribbean Language Research, University of the West Indies, and UNESCO. http://www.caribbeanlanguages.org.jm

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• Creole
• Trinidad
• French
• Trinidadian
• indigenous
• endangered
• language
• culture
• agriculture
• cuisine
• JLU
• 'Jamaican Language Unit'
• Paramin
• linguistics
• Caribbean

[queenzofayiti]

wow!!!!! it amazing how haitian creole is almost the same as trini creole.....

[Neeka693]

@santoure Just joined! my grandfather speaks is fluently and my grandma says it here and there..i wish they would've passed it down to my generation

[jazzynote]

why dont someone try to document it so we can preserve it?..COME ON WHY DO WE LOVE EVERY ONE ELSES STUFF and we dont want to preseve our own things

[dedeaux2]

This Creole is very similiar to what is spoken on the coast of Mississippi in Delisle. I can understand quite a bit.

[NicKingPapiChulo]

@cagelsthrough its all the same créole is one particular patois. patois is just a synonym for dialect

[alto971]

this is exactly the same creole from Martinique !

[naomi13jf]

am from seychelles and our creole is actually further away from french than this.. or maybe she was going for french more than creole??

[naomiafia]

St Luians the same French creole as this.

[60pn]

dommaz patwa ceole pe disparete dan caraibe me dan mascarene creole  bien vivant

[CadjinGisclair]

Mo conné palé un peu kréyol la lwizyàn, et mo trouvé ça video-là bien intéressant! (Sorry, j'connais pas vraiment comment parler le créole louisianais, j'connais juste quèque phrases)