The Sound of the Kouri-Vini / Louisiana Creole language (Numbers, Greetings, Words & Sample Text)
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- čas přidán 30. 05. 2021
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Folks who lent their voices:
Michael Gisclair
Adrien Guillory-Chatman
Clif St. Laurent
Corey Ledet
Jonathan Mayers
Shawanda Marie Williams
Kouri-Vini | Louisiana Creole
Native to: United States
Region: Louisiana, southeastern Texas, Mississippi, California, Illinois
Number of Speakers: 7000-9000
Kouri-Vini, also known as Louisiana Creole, is the critically endangered Creole language native to Louisiana. It formed among enslaved communities during the French colonial period in the early 18th century. In certain regions it became the lingua franca, spoken by enslaved and free peoples across racial lines.
This language was spoken along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. However, the number of speakers decreased significantly by the end of the 20th century. By the middle of the century, the number of speakers were concentrated in southern Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast as well as within Louisiana Creole diasporic communities in southeastern Texas, California, and Illinois.
Kouri-Vini is experiencing revitalization initiated by members of the Louisiana Creole community, some of whom began their work almost twenty years ago. Currently, there are more heritage language (re)learners studying Kouri-Vini than before World War I.
Louisiana civil parishes in which Kouri-Vini, also known as Louisiana Creole, is still found but are not limited to include Iberia, Lafayette, Lafourche, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupée, St. James, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, and St. Tammany.
LINKS:
www.mylhcv.com/languages/2/
www.learnlouisianacreole.com/
g.co/woolaroo
/ kourivini
app.memrise.com/course/104698...
www.louisianacreoledictionary....
bit.ly/Mythologies (PDF)
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Imagine a world if USA never got rid of minority languages
Mèsi bokou, Andy! We're so glad to have had this opportunity. Wishing you much happiness!
Jolimen bon djòb a tou kèkènn ki té endan potré-çila! Mo fyè mo té ka kontribyé 2 ti fraz!
And once again, Andy, incredible job! Byin mèsi. 💚
As a French speaker I could understand 90% of it.
tu serai pas Québécois ?
parce que personnellement je comprend 70 pour cent a tout casser 😂😂
@@cestpasbienca6526 au début de cette vidéo ça allait puis ça s est parti en couille mdr
@@cestpasbienca6526 Idem, 70% en voyant large. Sur certaines phrases, je ne comprends qu’un mot.
@@cestpasbienca6526 je suis Québécois et je suis pas sûr que j'en comprends plus que toi
Heu 50%max
I speak Mauritian Creole, it seems we can talk to each other ;) In fact, you can also talk to people in Reunion Island Creole, Rodrigues Island Creole and Seychelles Creole
Je suis québécois et je comprends la majeure partie de ce qui est dit. Continuez le bon travail pour garder le créole de Louisiane vivant!
It's really amazing how many dialects and ways of speaking exist from languages of prestigious, ways of speaking never imagined no matter what's the language that they are based on. This channel is a real living linguistic lab!
This creole is beautiful and it make a big hold about its history. I would support this endangered creole and inform others that this exist. Wishing here for enthusiast to successfully revive this one.
Make a petition to the State of Louisiana about the revival of this language.
Trust me, we are working hard to revitalize it! Some of us create content in the language here on CZcams and other platforms, we have a very active online community, and we’ve created resources for learning the language. Here are some of them:
www.mylhcv.com/languages/2/
Louisiana is so culturally deep
Gran mèsi vouzòt pou resours-la!
The Louisiana Creole language also have elements of Spanish
As a Brazilian portuguese speaker, I can understand around 60%, Because the language is French-based, and French and Portuguese have the same origin
Wow, that's wonderful! 😃
One of my favorite languages..
That was amazing. I could understand 100%
I was searching for this while ago. Now, You uploaded the vid.
This sounds like a French Canadian trying to speak in a Southern accent lol 😂😂
Glad you found us entertaining...
Or like an acadian with an ebonics accent ;)
Mèsi pou videyo-çila! Nou gin pou keep our language alive!
Sounds like my late father and other older relatives of Louisiana. Some didn't speak English.
Louisiana's cultural background is harmony of cajun, creole and deep south
As a native Spanish speaker I could understand a bunch of this language.
I really like your videos 😊
Some of the orthography looks very similar to Haitian Kreyol. The spoken version is more easily understandable to me as a B2 speaker of French though. I wonder if Louisianan Creole would end up becoming more similar to Haitian Kreyol one day as it diverges further from European French.
i think many people fled from haiti to louisiana during 18th/19th century so i guess that's why
@@mahatmaniggandhi2898 that’s not why Haiti and Louisiana were connected back then people went from Louisiana to Haiti vice versa way before the revolution on my ancestry test I’m related to a lot if people from Louisiana
@@mahatmaniggandhi2898 Louisiana Creole was spoken in Louisiana before the Haitian Revolution.
@@mahatmaniggandhi2898 As Adrien said, the first documentation we have of Louisiana Creole is from the 1740s. The first Haitians arrived in Louisiana (mainly New Orleans) in the early 1800s.
Mo limn ça! Bon djob vouzòt, dèt fyær.
cool Louisiana creole language sound so beautiful thanks for uploading and can you upload another language video please of a Afrikaans based creole language spoken in Namibia and south Africa name oorlam creole :)
I think that it's time of the world to see more comedic content in Kouri Vini on CZcams.
A dying French creole ☹️☹️
That’s just one version there is many type of French creole languages
J'ai connu un gars qui parle créole de Louisiane et la première fois je n'ai rien compris lorsqu'il parlait, même quand ça est presque français pratiquement. Mdrrr.
It's so similar to Catalan, we also say Pok a Pok (poc à poc)
In portuguese we say pouco à pouco
Isn't the word for cold at 2:35 also the same as in Catalan?
Això és tan interessant. És veritat.
The same for some dialects of Ialian as well.
@@saddasish In Catalan it would be "fa fred" (said like fa fret), so the phrase is extremely similar
And chaud/sho is related to "cald" except it isn't used today (heat = calor like castilian)
Nice
As I french native speaker I could understand 50% of the words and understand 25% of the sentences meaning.
FINALLY!!!!!!
Can someone answer this question for me. When you see a word that has jointed letters (i.e. poer) Do you have to say "par, pe" together or is one M and one F?
We also call mosquitoes Mayengwen lol easy language lol 😂
Mo linm vidyo-çila bon djòb toukékun
Es muy parecido al francés con un toque caribeño. Es comprensible en parte para quienes hablamos español.
Beautifully done. Love the graphics. But the dialogue was way too fast for me to actually learn any of it.
This sounds like an Acadian speaking Haïtian
I see u took that memerise course
I came here to try to read what Gambit is saying from the X-men. Maybe I’ll learn it and start reading his graphic novel easier lol
Some simolar with french louisiana 😀
So it’s a mix of French and other stuff
Just french, it’s like french creole from Martinique Guadeloupe etc...
@@Drugov78 it’s not just French creole languages have other languages within them not just the dominant languages
@@stanleydouge2803 true French mixed with Amerindian, Spanish and west African languages elements
@@teknul89 exactly our languages might sound like French but it’s not just French
Its like france! I speak a little bit france
Finally
So what's based on this language? French and?
Similar to Haitian Creole
Similar to Lucian Creole. Similar to Mauritius Creole. Similar to Dominica Creole. Similar to Trinidad Creole (yes at a point Trinidad spoke a French Creole). Similar to Réunion Creole. All due to being occupied by the same people. Mé ça pa ditou minm-la par ègzamp: Ayiti di “mwen” é no di “mo”. Alor parèy mé diféren, to komprenn?
Although this language have been attributed to the gens de couleurs. There were many whites who spoke it.
the spelling is easier than french spelling haha
As a non-native speaker of French, I understand most of what is being said although I must admit that there are places where certain elements like verbs are missing in some sentences but I guess that that is just how the creole works.
C'est tellement bizarre mais intéressant d'entendre ca ouahh
It's African American right I can learn it ?
That language sounds like French.
Do many people speak it?
Only 9000 most of them are old so dying out. I just starter learning no one in my family speaks it. Im trying to get everybody on board
Im first!
Early
How many french creole are?. Answer in comments section
What?
Third
Astè = Asteur in Quebec French
I’ve never heard about this romance language.
Are the speakers african american? The cadence sounds somewhat similar to that of Ebonics.
There are a lot of black people living in Louisiana so they may have the AAVE accent
In, dé, trò, kat, sink, sis, sèt, wit, *nerf, this*
lol
It’s like French creole from french West Indies
Indo European :)
Similar French
Every broken buffs or reworks.
@Umbra Coven All Indo-European languages have similar numbers, even more if you see from ancestral languages
Im 900th
Very strange way to spell French.
French but easier...
Banjo speak.