WIKITONGUES: Pablo speaking Garifuna
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ม.ค. 2016
- Garifuna is spoken by as many as 190,000 people, principally in the Central American nations of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua, as well as by significant diaspora communities in the United States. An Arawakan language, it is the only surviving member of the Igneri (Island Carib) dialect continuum. Read more on Wikipedia: bit.ly/1KdGhan.
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That is a magnificent beard.
Handsome man wearing a magnificent beard. My maternal grandmother's family is Garifuna.
It's like a fusion of Arawak/Carib, Spanish, French and African languages. Love it.
It is important to keep the Garifuna language alive
l from Honduras I love you my people garifuna 🇭🇳
Honduras to the heart my brother
Espero que su familia esta bien después Eta
Don't forget Guatemala! 🇬🇹
Thank you brother Pablo, When I arrived in this country I spoke Garifuna and Spanish, TRULY REGRETFUL that I have FORGOTTEN MY LANGUAGE....... GRATEFUL TO HEAR IT SPOKEN AFTER 43 years, GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER PABLO
As a Dominican, it's exciting to hear this because it's as close as you can get to Taino Arawak.
My great grandmother was Garifuna from Nicaragua. Very interesting to hear this language.
Not too late to learn it. My brother and I plan to learn it.
@@HOPROPHETA me too!
Hello , Garifuna my name is Kwabena am of Ghanaian Senegalese and Lesotho heritage I was told some of my ancestors are also from Belize who are Garifuna am learning more about the Garifuna right now am trying to get a Belize Citizenship as well . But I was born in the USA to African parents .
Me too, from Guatemala but sadly the language was never passed down
@@darrylwatters5175 what history won't tell you is alot of amerindians were sent to Europe and west Africa!
I always heard this language being spoken by folks in NY. Buy I never realized what it was until I met my Belizian wife. I find the Garifuna people very interesting as a whole, language and African
traditions. Love it.
It's pretty amazing how you can find that kind of diversity in New York. It's nice to see an indigenous language being spoken. I've lived most of my life in Boston, and you can't really find much indigenous diversity there.
Their not from Africa... Their Indigenous to the Americas like almost Every Black American. No dis-respect.
Rare Breed guuurl really. Where did all black people come from. Africa.
Garifuna people are mixed African, carribean, carib
@@rarebreed4489 No they are not, they are from Saint Vincent but mixed from African surviving slaves, Caribbean's and caribs from south America
This is probably the close as we can get to the Taíno language spoken in Puerto Rico (Banéke) before Columbus.
logtype47 actually the entire arawak population wasn't killed off in Jamaica. Are there as many Taínos? Nope, but Arawak-Taínos survived in the mountains in some parishes.
Arawak is an erroneous term to describe indigenous person from the caribbean. We call ourselves Garifuna, Taino, Lokono, Kalinago, Ciboney.
Sounds more West African.
@@fabulu Pablo the term Kalinago is correctly pronounced Garinagu
I was amazed to learn that Garifuna had similar words that Taino had. Always knew there were Carib (Karina, Galibi) words but did not realize the Carib who migrated to the lesser antilles had their language aug.ented by the Arawakan women who raised their new generations. So proud to be Garifuna but ashamed I am not well aculturated.
Probably falling on deaf ears but does anybody know where or how I can learn Garifuna? My family is Garifuna, from Honduras, and reside in New York and while I do speak Spanish I don't speak our ancestral tongue. I really wish to learn it one day.
When I was in Livingston, Guatemala there are some dictionaries available as well as children's textbooks.
There is a local school where people can teach you songs, drumming and language in Garifuna. However it can be pretty expensive. So there are people out there who can teach but you really have to seek them out.
I am learning too
Im learning too, Im garifuna we might b cousins lol
Good to know that there are black people in Latin America who speak a non-European language
Not only that, but this is an indigenous language!
This is quite literally the last of the languages originally spoken in the Caribbean islands.
In my country they used to speak their own lenguage in their houses or their own activities. And they usually speak spanish or english and garifuna
Dark skinned people were everywhere, King. Literally everywhere. The first people! The real indigenous people🖤👑☀️⚡️
Maybe so but the Garifuna actually refer to themselves as Zambos, not black. And their language is almost completely Amerindian and not of African origin.
I'm also curious to know how Garifunas ended up with Spanish surnames
Saludos. No soy Garifuna pero soy Centro Americano. Viva todo el Pueblo Garinagu de Centro America.
First time hearing this language, and I think it's really interesting. Thank you for uploading
I spent part of my childhood in San Pedro Sula (1970s), where my mom's side of the family is from, and I heard a lot of Garífuna being spoken. Always found it really interesting, great to see this clip!
Interesting! I've never heard of this language before.
Seremein boun Libari baba
Seremein wan finau
Añahayan buma
Ricardo Guity Blanco
Pablo! Keep up the good works brother. Luja te marihinaninbun bra'vo. Peace.
He is beautiful my goodness. The language ❤️
My husband is from a Garifuna village in SVG. People often forget St. Vincent because they dont speak the language anymore and numbers are small.
But that's where they came from ❤
I’m from St Vincent and I proud to be Garifuna
I am from st vincent and a proud Garifuna
Its a shame they don't speak garifuna in st Vincent am trying to learn the language but it's so hard to start as I Don't anyone who speaks is my family are caribs from st Vincent sandy Bay
@@anitacromwell9036 Do an exchange. My husband did an exchange as a child in SVG. He said that 2 Garifuna girls from Belize stayed with his family. So that was 20+ years ago Im sure that there must be some children you can host. They can speak with you.
YOOOO THIS IS SO COOL! Im taino and i have been re learning our language and i can actually pick out n understand words n things from what he is saying hahaha so cool!
Im actually very greatful to the garifuna for having preserved our ancestral language to such a degree ppl thought it was wiped out completely. Well structurally. There are about 3200 surviving words in the entire carribean give or take a few more. I come from a long line of native american ppls and am also mixed with african so it amazes me to hear this and be able to understand to some degree. So exciting! Lol thank u for sharing
Such a beautiful language and culture. With its Arawakian roots should definitely go be preserved!
I think my 6th grade academic literacy teacher is a garifuna speaker! Should I get a video of him?
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How have you been numada?
Fascinating...
Love this culture... Creci en el hermoso puerto de Tela, y es hermoso escucharlos en la calle... No entiendo 😅. Pero es parte de mi cultura en Honduras..
Our Black Culture is so Blessed GLOBALLY with many intriguing historical experiences and legacies!
he isnt black like you
@@leslienovakovic3819 as he said, OUR BLACK CULTURE. that means mind your european colonizer business. ;)
@@bcom11 shutup stupid
It's black culture like the OP said. The colonizers are just mad bc it's untouched and I ruined by them. She just wanted to offend an African American in any way she desperately could. They cant be a part of it and it angers them. Black, African, Caribbean it's all the same bc it is from literal black colored ppl no matter what country they're in.
@@leslienovakovic3819 make me, eugenicist.
My father is Maya and Garífuna descent from Guatemala and his dad is Garífuna from Belize which they call themselves Black Caribbeans. He is Afro Latino and speaks Spanish. Everyone on my dad side of the family are black. His DNA test proved part of his ancestry is from Africa. The Garífuna language or dialect is a language that is from Arawakan languages just like the Taínos from the Caribbean Islands. There language or dialect is also from Arawakan. My mother is from Puerto Rico and is Taíno descent. My parents know there family history and made sure we know our family roots.
The cadence of his speech is so reminiscent of the Nigerian accent. It almost feels like he's speaking Igbo.
Yes with the tree Snaps❤❤❤
hes a cutie ;)
justkissanamakeup yes
thats my uncle
He is
music to my ears 🇭🇹
Hello , Garifuna my name is Kwabena am of Ghanaian Senegalese and Lesotho heritage I was told some of my ancestors are also from Belize who are Garifuna am learning more about the Garifuna right now am trying to get a Belize Citizenship as well . But I was born in the USA to African parents .
Mantengan su bella cultura y trasmitirla a sus nuevas generaciones. Empresa nada facil. Adelante
Just because Garifuna people pass as black today and genetically have a lot of influence from African peoples, it doesn't mean that their language and culture is mostly African-derived. The people descend from a mix between Native Americans (indigeneous Island Caribs, Taino, etc.) and Afro-Caribbeans. Garifuna is probably 70% Native American-derived in terms of words and grammatically is almost entirely Native American-derived, mostly from Island Carib and Taino. They are truly indigenous people, and so is their culture and language.
You can say that about every black person out of Africa
@@poopbutt6241 what's your point?
Think his point is that your statement is true throughout all of indigenous culture on Earth. For example the same is evident amongst the Gullah Geechee of South Carolina. To a similar degree.
All so called “Black” but all Moors/Moreno/Moro
Nah
They themselves say they are africans
I want my culture back 🇻🇨 😢
The only person who can speak Garifuna in my immediate family is my grandma. 🇧🇿
So what he is explaining? I only heard Belize and New York. Anyone translate?
I can ask my mom to when she returns and if I remember!
@@HOPROPHETA have you asked your mom yet?
Here from Belize... Garinagu
Damn what is he saying ?
Wow!
Is Garifuna one of the last Arawakan/Carribena languages in good health?
Wayuu (guajiro) is in better health. Has a whole chunk of land in the north of the country Colombia.
Pero que dijo???
Nice to see another native american on wikitongues, although little unconventional.
Hes afro descendant, not native american, blacks are not native.
@@volovo5953 Phenotype does not determine DNA. the Garifuna are a Native-American/African mixed people. In fact many Natives throughout the Americas have been mixed, particularly with European DNA.
@@volovo5953 the language and culture is largely Native American derived, perhaps around 70%. Garifuna is not an African language, but a few words are African in origin.
Just because he passes as black, doesn't mean that his culture and language are African-derived
Wabaragu wama namule.
❤❤❤
🤗
I’m a Arriola, Chavez, Palacios, Lopez
It’s like a language I never hear but it reminds me of French, some Spanish, Native American and African language?
Ay que enseñar a nuestros niños: Que lastima que crecí sin aprender!!!!! Dale namule
this is my uncle 💓💓
Michabei pero lidoun. Mama Garifuna lirra. Chumagunu lirrra.
Garifuna is basically a mix of Indigenous American & African with the certainty of European influences.
It's Garífuna, not Garifuna. The accent on the "í" is not optional.
the fact that i heard the mispronunciation is killing me right now lollll
Tenkinibu..namule
Buiti le badagubei
Pastekun uwati megeiti libari baba
Someone please explain to me why there are Garifunas that don't have Garifuna names.
Why are there millions of black people around the world that don’t have African names. There was a 400 year period in history that charged a lot of things to this day. I often hear that the Garifuna are in this Central American country or that country. Conveniently forgetting St Vincent the birth place of Garifuna.
When we were exiled to Honduras under the Spanish rule we were to be baptized and given Spanish names.
Yeah Africans were in Asia too. Sound like he speaking Japanese and Mandarin too
That’s AB the boxer 🥊
Taino-ti' bo matu'm
Taíno
BEEELIZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, because I heard Belize. :)
Vivi santa rosa de aguan
Viva Santa Rosa 🌹 de Lima Santa del Perú
buiti katei le primo
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
garifuna ayu
Maybe that's how my Taino ancestors sounded when they spoke... :(
Garifuna is often classified as "arawakan" when you read literature distributed by the Guatemalan government or others. However the grammatical structure must be african? Unless these people truly took on Arawakan Grammar when they intermingled with locals? Anybody have insight on this?
This language is not African. Researchers have found that the only African influence in the Garifuna langue is the phonetics. Grammar remains indigenous. For example think of African American English.
@@TheMariemarie16 Great to know, this brings up so many fascinating points about language evolution. Phonetics persist along with culture and music. I wonder if there are other examples of this in the world.
It's a mixture of afro-carib
This language is a combination of Maya and what his ancestors spoke when their slavery bound ship capsized off the coast of Saint Vincent in the 1500 hundreds, if I'm not mistaken... as far as I know, they were assimilated into the native population of the island and later uprooted by the English and transplanted to the Mosquito coast in Central America... These cultures fascinate me.
Simone Biles the gold medalist Olympic champion is of Garifuna ancestry from Belize.
It has no mayan influence, it's arawakan and carib
arawak and cariban
Do s ancestry DNA and post it on TH-cam so we can see Garifuna DNA
Most of them are like 75% African and 15-25% Native American and the rest is European.
We could be suprised in some cases like 60-70 % native american and rest sub-saharian .
Bryce Council that pretty much the breakdown.
Most garifuna have little or no European in there DNA I am 79% African 15% Native American and 7%European.
Anita Parker So in other words, pretty much what Bryce Council said.
black americans in the united states should adopt this langauge. we need to seperate ourselves.
spacecodes2 So we should adopt a separate language not related to us once again? Why not learn Igbo, or Ashanti?
or even haitian creole or something relevant to being of African descent.
Isis Smith Isis Smith kreyol as you know is mostly based off French but includes many taino words. the few African loan words used all have to do w. voodoo. makes you think...
Why should they ? Haven’t you guys already invented your own dialect ?
Do your research. It is hypothesized many east coast Indians have African ancestry and Africans may have migrated to the Caribbean and the Americas prior to Columbus.
That’s AB the boxer 🥊