But thats not what Im saying. im saying this is american history and everyone should know about this. it should be out there for every american to take pride in.
Ok, I see your point, but American history is always altered. If they really told the truth about the African Americans...justification would need to take place. Us being here is evidence of a true crime....do you really expect the truth to be told? Just like in Texas they are removing the term slaves from black history...they are saying we came here as imigrants. I'm like really? We were taken and stolen from a place in Wwst Africa. Cut off from everything we have ever known...but now we are just like immigrants. What a big lie. We have to tell our own history. America is guilty and will not reperiate us until God forces them to do so.
Nicole Cruz why should anyone alive today repudiate? I didn't own slaves. My parents and grandparents didn't own slaves. No one in my families history since the first colonists that came to America owned slaves. In fact, my 2nd great grandfather fought for the Union to help free slaves. Again, what do I owe you?
dis yeh is'sa many of us tawk. and there are different versions of even this Creole. we are now more and more turning back to it and realizing we are actually bilingual , bidilectual at least.
MrCrankybird (and I'm sure you'll never see this but I have to say it just to let you know...) that was just rude! Since, I assume, you were born and raised to speak English, from the cradle, it is a much easier language for you to grasp. However, do you know where your ancestors came from? Were they from an English speaking country already? Countries that speak other languages have a very difficult time learning the English language, just as you would have a difficult time (after already knowing the English language...say about 5 or 6) you would have a difficult time learning the language of a country that does not speak English (Italy, Nederland, Germany, Africa) if you were to move there. Not to mention, Bezal-El has pretty good English in the above statement, and I bet Bezal-El knew to capitalize the word English!
I thought this was how country black folks talk. I don't speak Gullah but I can understand what is being said. I grew up in Tennessee. My grandparents even my mom use a lot of the words. As kids we would imitate and laugh...but this explains why blacks (we) speak different around a friends! LOL we know how to talk white lol but we have our own way of talking too lol. Especially in the south.
@@cedfri that because you in the different state. Mississippi, Louisiana, florida and alabama got alil french and Spanish on a dominant african language but when English took over. You can see the different dialect base on regions. Folks from LA west coast got they dialect from texas and Louisiana. Chicago dialect from Mississippi. Detroit dialect from Alabama. Cleveland dialect from georgia. New york dialect from South Carolina. We all got our languages from africans mix with country hillbilly broken english, french and spanish and native. We been here a long time
I’m from Texas and my family from the country and i’ll say this is deeper than just our typical country talk but i can still understand a good part of it maybe people form Georgia and the Carolinas can understand better tho
@@TakeishaLafaye Are you serious?! She is acknowledging Black English as a dialect with respect!! Just because her ancestors were messed up doesn't mean she is! And she is obviously aware of what her ancestors did, so there is no need for you to be so passive-aggressive and attack her! Save your words for someone who actually needs them.
it is very close to the African way of speaking. also the fact that some sentences, like the one that she talks about "i'm dun dun du dat" mean many things at the same time is typical to African languages. in African languages, when you say something, or ask a question or give an answer in a certain way, you mean a lot of thing in only one sentence. it is very good to see African Americans who have their own culture.
A lot african American speak like that but in the usa all the tv says about Africa is poverty. If ur black American u have take upon your self to research all things people that look like u added to the American culture
@@vergespierre4271 So which continent is black ?. There's no black continent where so called black Americans came from . It was all Africa and her mistakes.
I beg you all to just sit back and marvel at the genius that is African. We survived what many couldn't. And we are so forgiving, that to this day, whites can sleep with both eyes closed, write our history and tell us where we came from, what they did to us, and who we are. To all of those making racist comments, racism is a cancer. It's that kind of thinking that got humans in this rachet state that we are in now. Unlearn what you've been taught and embrace TRUTH. GOD BLESS.
@behindthehaze Wi langwij cum from Krio (Sierra Leone) likka meny ob wi ancesta dem.wi langwij da closa tuh Krio den Jamaican Patwa o odda ress a Caribbean creolized langwij dem!! Tenki tenki fah notice wi langwij en culcha!!
MI lub disyah langwage summuch... E' ain nuttin likka yeddi de langwage ob mi ancesta dem... Wi gwine keep disyah langwage fah gah en stey scrong fah trut!!
My great grandmother from Alabama speaks like this. Just somewhat slowed and watered down. That's what happened to mainland blacks because we weren't isolated from whites. Oh those sweet African roots. I can hear the starting point from which the vocal inflection changes began. Wish we mainland blacks still had that strong and distinct African dialect and sound.
I think blacks in the islands like Jamaica had an advantage over us in the USA. It seems they were able to hold on to their African roots more. We were stripped of everything in the US...religion, food, music....
+Nicole Cruz Yes Jamaicans we're able to retain more of an African influenced sound because there was a higher ratio of black s to whites than here so blacks had less exposure to whiten accents and therefore their African sounds were much better preserved. That and the fact that infant mortality rates were higher there necessitating the importation of more Africans thereby refreshing the African character of the people. In the US our infant mortality rates were lower resulting in more generationally American Blacks thereby further distancing us from our African linguistical characteristics.
@braynex1 Anyone is capable of learning to speak both ways, depending on the context. You don't have to lose your "blacklish" to gain formal english. You can speak both. It's called code-switching, and plenty of people do it successfully.
for all of you interested in Gullah , i recommend you to listen Southern rag by Blind Blake. that record was made in 1927 , and he actually talking about Gullah and Geechee's with their accent.
@JHaines57 I don't understand why some people (Caucasian racists) like you troll YT videos for anything pertaining to the AA experience in the first place. Your antagonism toward us is obvious, your bias against us is obvious and I'm not sure why you feel the need to put your two cents into anything in the first place. Why should your opinions even be relevant?
This is so interesting. I never knew about this culture. When I was a child Nickelodeon had a show called Gullah Gullah Island, but I never knew that it originated from this vibrant culture.
I remember watching this documentary when it first aired in England. I can relate to the language being an off spring to Caribbean parents. Caribbeans in England should take pride in the patois they speak and not let anyone tell us it's bad English. It's the dialwct we've mansged to preseve after the brutal past our Ancestors endured with white slavers. Look at how so many people are copying our lingo and accents and claiming it as theirs but we don't do the same with others.
I often can hear where our dialects derive from when hearing Nigerians and West Africans speak. They have the same tenor in their voices as AA. Even the way we use words, such as dat, dis, da, dem, dey. It's the mix of English and West African dialects for certain.
@JHaines57 Don't speak about things you don't understand; learn a thing or two about *linguistics* before you start spouting POPULIST nonsense like claiming that one dialect is inferior to another. Language variation is everywhere, and it is in nobody's place to say that one group of people's way of speaking is improper simply because it's different than the majority's. Criticizing an entire language or dialect makes about as much sense as criticizing a species of animal or plant.
amazing !!...being a white boy from new jersey, this is fascinating to me...i never even heard of these american people before i saw this video...i learned a lot just by watching this !!
@johnnygamer2011 ALL THE HELL WE BLACKS BEEN THROUGH AS A RACE! WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE RACIST, WHICH I AM , I HAVE NEVER CALLED A WHITE PERSON A FRIEND AND NEVER WILL., I COULD NEVER SAY I LOVE A WHITE PERSON, WHITE PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE SYMPATHY! ARE RESPECT!
A lot of Gullah have Caribbean roots and there was a lot of two way immigration from the mainland and the islands especially during early slavery. A lot of Bajans have connections to those living in South Carolina Sea Islands. Not exactly sure but something to do with Sierra Leone area and slaves that came from there.
@usaf317 Can you read? I didn't say that hip-hop was a culture, I said that it is an aspect of a culture. Most of the language in the garbage rap that you may have been exposed to may be curse words, materialism, half-naked women and so on, so forth, but there are so many more aspects to hip-hop than what the mainstream is exposed to. Just because YOU can't understand it or relate to it doesn't mean that it isn't music. Opinions are like assholes.
@JHaines57 Actually it's not a 'claim' and it has nothing to do with lip service. Google the stats if you are unsure. lol it's amazing that you can admit that due to stereotypes that women more than men need to prove their worth, but because of your racist bias you can't extend the same reasoning to other minorities. Your racism is also exposed when you automatically assume that standards are 'lowered' in regard to African-Americans.
@JHaines57 Another term for "established" or "professional speech" is "whiteness." In other words, you could say, "blacks should give up their culture, heritage, and history, ignore the structural, spatial, and social disparity that continues to exist as a result of it, and act the way that the white cultural wants them to." You see, as a white person it is difficult to understand that THAT means "be who we want you to be, or suffer."
@JHaines57 The one group that benefits the most from affirmative action are not people of African descent I can assure you, it's Caucasian women. So umm...is there a skepticism that they got where they are for having earned it?
@JHaines57 I wouldn't say people are incapable of speaking the so called 'established' grammar, listen to how the woman in this video switches from one variety of English at 0.35 to another in 0.40. Most people are capable of switching their dialect if they wish to do so, but that is their choice.
As for "formalized structure", formalization can be prescriptive or descriptive. That is, it can be formalized by some authority saying "this is correct, that is incorrect", or it can be formalized by a scholar who examines the structures present in actual speech or writing. Any language or creole has a formal structure, regardless of whether it is considered "correct".
@criollokid80 Because the economic, social, and cultural elements of American society are largely divided along racial lines--particularly between "whites" and blacks; a history book might help you understand why that is.
me too. I just about followed that woman's whole story. When the first lady slowed down a bit, I understood her too. I guess cause I'm from the south. Some of us still speak like that.
@@blkindians7974 I'm of Gullah Geechee ancestry and over the years I've come to learn just how much we never lost when our ancestors were stolen from Africa.....shouting in the church, talking at the preacher when he preaches, the term gwine, the dental clicks, steatopygia depending on the African tribe, the extreme height.... depending on the African tribe, the name Baybay. I'm so glad all this self hate and shame of being African descended is finally subsiding....although we got a long ways to go! I have a spiritual gift and have dreamed quite often, since I was young, of being in various African tribes/villages back before Muslims Christians, Arabs, Europeans invaded Africa. It was beautiful, peaceful and hot as hell but nobody was ever bothered by the heat. They loved it and saw it as a blessing. Men and women were both equal and spiritual leaders could be male and female. There wasn't any of this mess you see today. They were proud people. I've known the lands of Africa many times!
@behindthehaze Wi langwij cum from Krio (Sierra Leone) likka meny ob wi ancesta dem.wi langwij da closa tuh Krio den Jamaican Patwa o odda ress a Caribbean creolized langwij dem!! Tenki tenki fah notice wi langwij en culcha!!
@criollokid80 well you highly think wrong..I am a native of southcarolina and nobody knows this lanuage unless it was passed down to you from your relatives.
The context is completely cultural. In some cultures it is rude to eat with utensils or not to eat the entire meal. So it is apples and oranges. Most of our ettiquette comes from European (English, French, etc.) philosophies of social vocabulary. Also, people will hear you talking in a certain vernacular and think that you are uneducated or unprofessional because of social stigmas. There are intricacies people are too ignorant/ lazy to understand.
If you're saying "okay" is from french, it's not. The olt occitanword you're refering to is "Oc", which ment yes in the south of france. But the most significant areas of french emmigration to the americas isn't the south, it's the mid west, where we don't say "oc"
I am studying “African American Vernacular” for my Eng class and I was wondering if anyone has come across other videos that have tackle the origin or the evolution of “African American Vernacular” or papers? Thanks UA-camrs!!
People always wanting to know what others are doing and saying and why they say it. We didnt plan it it was to get others out of the buisness of knowing what we are doing.
It is obvious JHaines57 has never studied English language or linguistics at undergraduate level. I'm afraid lacortina1 is right, i know you don't want to believe it, but cortina's right.
@JHaines57 like the previous poster said, English is the usage of English, it is understanding and being understood, THAT is what makes it proficient. As for standardization, that's difficult as language is not set in stone, it changes all the time. Everyday spoken English is about expression, creating an effect, joke telling tag questions, ummings and ahhings, hesitation, repetition and so on. You can't standardize spoken English.
a lot of gulla people came from angola today portugues have taken over again because of oil riches so the gulla have more right to angola than the portugues lets talk about that
@JHaines57 I was referring to the present AA culture. How do you know they are incompetent at speaking standard English? People adapt the way they speak depending on who they are speaking to. Listen, there are many many varieties of English throughout the world. American English is different to British English is different to Irish English and so on. What is considered standard English in American English, might not be standard in British English.
If I understand correctly, then the historic speech of African-Americans meets the definition of language, and not just a dialect. In this sense, African-Americans are bilingual. I am Pennsylvania Dutch and am trilingual: I learned Pennsylvania Dutch at home, English in elementary school and High German in high school.
I don't look down on the people who speak this language; in fact, I admire them and find the rich history and culture of the language extremely fascinating. I just wish I could understand them better.
well you should learn that dialect.African american english is rich in colours and influences, it is like a dish full of flavours of the past with trendy modern features. Its too bad people are ashamed of it ( it ian't hard to figutre why) everything that has an afro tag on it has been demonised from the wi to america.lol! @ 03:48 to 03:52 that woman is mad funny.
They're not "errors" in African-American English or British Black English. Any linguistics student would tell you that. AAE and BBE have their own grammar, different than that of Standard English. And those verbs you call "a wreck" are grammatically correct in AAE or in British Black English. We need stop being so prejudiced against certain dialects and languages. Greetings!
@tokinblckgie Oh, NOW you're going to pull the "you're not backing up your points" act, when I gave plenty of justification and arguments in previous posts, all of which you chose to ignore, to keep repeating the same lines about "why should blacks conform to eurocentric ways" when I told you exactly why we ALL do. I just dropped that last line because you clearly are not listening or addressing my points. You're just grandstanding with the same old, tired afro-apologetic statements.
the world spoke only one language at one time God confused the language because Nimrod was trying to build a city to keep the people together and to control and give himself glory , so i don't understand why people trip because black people speak different . they were taking from their land and force to live under the standard of another race so they kept some of their language way and mixed it in with english must they be under total control of another language?
@JHaines57 man just stop...if your not even of black decent why are you even commenting on on this video...? why does it even matter for you...how the hell can you say that when the gullah islands where not even inhabited by slave master..this is why I asked you not to comment on something you know nothing about..
your understanding of a thing has little to do with the validity of that thing.. whites are beautiful people is an opinion spearheaded advancements no sir that is not true humans did those things created a standard, its called pidgin english if you had any understanding of english you would know that english itself developed from a creolization process.
Many linguistic features of the Southern American dialect actually derive from African languages. Yes, there was exchange in both directions. But some specific features like "I done did it" have no antecedent in English prior to the slave trade, but closely parallel the grammatical structures of West African languages.
hell no!! they are black true southern black dey aint no people the carribean dey got true soul which people in the carribean dont have aint nver goin have so that insult
@usaf317 Actually it's not a culture, it's a subculture. Not all hip-hop is crap. I hate mainstream hip-hop but there are a LOT of lesser-known/underground artists who are brilliant. It's a matter of opinion anyway. I happen to think that most alt rock and country are total crap but that's just my tastes.
i think bc we all share sm in common yk. Like my family is Jamaican yet so many Can mistaken it for a African, or British accent. It’s cool and so mixed.
It's almost exactly the same in a way. Enslaved Africans in the Bahamas came from the same places as Enslaved African Americans. The linguistic origins would have been the same but evolved in a different environment. We also don't consider that many people from the Caribbean were sold as slaves to the United States. That deeply influenced African American language and culture.
I was applying for a job and this White guy interviewing me went to get a White co worker. "Listen to how well she speaks!" I didn't know the things I know now or I could have schooled him. Then when I was a little older and working at a job where I encountered a young White pilot who was adamant at making me feel inferior to his race. He said he had married a blonde, blue eyed White woman with ivory skin. He started comparing the races. He said " Mexicans are cute but got too fat and Black women were at the bottom of the totem pole. "They are loud, and too manly." Then he started talking about how we talk. "I've come to the conclusion that Black people have thick tongues that's why they can't say certain words." On and on he went until I could no longer listen to his gibberish. I had not , even then, learned our history. When I was in school we did not have Black history month. But I started wondering what were they teaching for Black history because in these two encounters these two White guys hadn't learned anything. Yet, I too didn't know anything. I found White people were in denial of any atrocities brought on by their hands. They presented themselves as saviors of the so called Negres, Negroes, Colored people, African Americans, . N--- ! Black people. The names were constantly changing just like Deuteronomy 28th chapter said. It's really pathetic that they won't even consider the fact that they would not allow us to learn their language for 400 years. It was considered as treason if any White person taught a slave he was fined or jailed. And the Black slave found trying to learn was strung up and beaten an inch of his life. The Hebrews were not allowed to speak their own language even among themselves. Then after slavery for 100 years Hebrews were still not allowed to attend White schools. So formal education was never allowed here in our land of captivity. We were virtually shunned and the butt of many jokes by the White community for the way we talked. And if a Black could speak as well as a White person he was called an uppity N- . It was considered as being INSUBORDINATE. This could result in a beating also. Then they ridicule us for the food we eat. The food we ate were parts of the hog the White man did not care for. They ate the ham and pork chops. The slaves ate to survive. Everything left on the pig was eaten, It was called the SLAVE DIET. BECAUSE OF OUR STUBBORNESS OUR GOD, YAH, FORSAKED US TO BE TAKEN INTO CAPTIVITY BY OUR ENEMY....THE DEVIL'S OFFSPRINGS.
I know right! I think all people of color are fascinating. Indians, Native American, African American, Mexican, Chinese everybody. We are a beautiful people! :)
I study sociolinguistics and we talked about African American Vernacular English in class today, so this video is very interesting. It's really unique how these people in this video has managed to hold on to the original African American English variety the way it first was developed. Also interesting to hear how it differs from Standard English in terms of grammar and speaking.
This group of people have their own culture, separate and apart from both the White and Afro-American cultures. They have wonderful recipes and a style all their own. They are a very hearty culture and very respected.
@tokinblckgie as prejudice is not quite the same as "eurocentrism", and it's different than the things we were earlier talking about, which was about professional and social standards. Blacks dumbing down their performance, though, as you put it, may come from stereotyping but is it necessarily "eurocentism"? Blacks actually stereotype themselves more than white people stereotype them. I.e. hip-hop, ebonic speech, anti-intellectualism, etc. Of course both sides need to be looked at, I agree.
It's very interesting, isn't it? I am American-born but have been abroad for a couple of decades & am w various Africans daily. I asked one recently where he's from, how many languages are in his country (36 I think) & how do they communicate, & he said a platform of English, at this point. Much less French than before.
why don't we know more about this? this is one of those things that should be featured in black history month. instead of Roots for the 100000th time.
We just have to pass our own history ourselves
But thats not what Im saying. im saying this is american history and everyone should know about this. it should be out there for every american to take pride in.
Ok, I see your point, but American history is always altered. If they really told the truth about the African Americans...justification would need to take place. Us being here is evidence of a true crime....do you really expect the truth to be told? Just like in Texas they are removing the term slaves from black history...they are saying we came here as imigrants. I'm like really? We were taken and stolen from a place in Wwst Africa. Cut off from everything we have ever known...but now we are just like immigrants. What a big lie. We have to tell our own history. America is guilty and will not reperiate us until God forces them to do so.
I agree
Nicole Cruz why should anyone alive today repudiate? I didn't own slaves. My parents and grandparents didn't own slaves. No one in my families history since the first colonists that came to America owned slaves. In fact, my 2nd great grandfather fought for the Union to help free slaves. Again, what do I owe you?
It’s interesting that I understand this. I’m from Detroit, this reminds me of how older black / older black southern people talk.
Same lol
Exactly
its crazy how i understood everything they said
For all the people calling this "slang" you are wrong. You have a lot of people in New Orleans who have a certain tone as well.
dis yeh is'sa many of us tawk. and there are different versions of even this Creole. we are now more and more turning back to it and realizing we are actually bilingual , bidilectual at least.
MrCrankybird (and I'm sure you'll never see this but I have to say it just to let you know...) that was just rude! Since, I assume, you were born and raised to speak English, from the cradle, it is a much easier language for you to grasp. However, do you know where your ancestors came from? Were they from an English speaking country already? Countries that speak other languages have a very difficult time learning the English language, just as you would have a difficult time (after already knowing the English language...say about 5 or 6) you would have a difficult time learning the language of a country that does not speak English (Italy, Nederland, Germany, Africa) if you were to move there. Not to mention, Bezal-El has pretty good English in the above statement, and I bet Bezal-El knew to capitalize the word English!
I thought this was how country black folks talk. I don't speak Gullah but I can understand what is being said. I grew up in Tennessee. My grandparents even my mom use a lot of the words. As kids we would imitate and laugh...but this explains why blacks (we) speak different around a friends! LOL we know how to talk white lol but we have our own way of talking too lol. Especially in the south.
Nicole Cruz I’m from Mississippi and I can understand majority of it.. Kinda sound like somebody great grandma that live here..
@@cedfri They actually have african words like "kimbo" (hips), "bobo" (boy) "defu" (rice flour).
@@cedfri that because you in the different state. Mississippi, Louisiana, florida and alabama got alil french and Spanish on a dominant african language but when English took over. You can see the different dialect base on regions. Folks from LA west coast got they dialect from texas and Louisiana. Chicago dialect from Mississippi. Detroit dialect from Alabama. Cleveland dialect from georgia. New york dialect from South Carolina. We all got our languages from africans mix with country hillbilly broken english, french and spanish and native. We been here a long time
No this is totally different from any language in the south you only heard a small portion of it
I’m from Texas and my family from the country and i’ll say this is deeper than just our typical country talk but i can still understand a good part of it maybe people form Georgia and the Carolinas can understand better tho
African American dialect is a cultural characteristic and should be more appreciated
It’s a language call tut
And it’s Gullah language too
Would have been appreciated and more than likely still used if your ancestors didn’t white wash everything.
We didn't even know that there was a language until barely now for African-American, our school did not teach us this
@@TakeishaLafaye Are you serious?! She is acknowledging Black English as a dialect with respect!! Just because her ancestors were messed up doesn't mean she is! And she is obviously aware of what her ancestors did, so there is no need for you to be so passive-aggressive and attack her! Save your words for someone who actually needs them.
This sounds very similar to the Krio we speak in Sierra Leone. Blessed!
Krio was bought over by free Creoles from Britain, USA, and the West Indies
This is where it comes from actually.
SAMEEE, i started to cry when they choir sang because i could understand them and my ancestors. that touched me
That's because it is alot of us comes from yall
Amazing how the choir at the end has the type of harmonies and rhythm that you would hear in Africa! Awesome!
My granny and her siblings speak dis way in Georgia...
Cheryl Davis mines did too especially the way the say children or going ova der
Michael Williams It's a beautiful thang...
Yeah my grandma speaks this way and we're from TX
My family speaks Geechee, and I love hearing them talk! LOL My Geechee is off, but I understand it well.
Same here
TikTok got me trying to learn tut ☺️
it is very close to the African way of speaking. also the fact that some sentences, like the one that she talks about "i'm dun dun du dat" mean many things at the same time is typical to African languages. in African languages, when you say something, or ask a question or give an answer in a certain way, you mean a lot of thing in only one sentence. it is very good to see African Americans who have their own culture.
A lot african American speak like that but in the usa all the tv says about Africa is poverty. If ur black American u have take upon your self to research all things people that look like u added to the American culture
@@jariusisaac3766 So, who told you we were "African"?
@@vergespierre4271 So who told you about Dane Calloway or the black Israelites?
Close to African? Bruh..it’s a mix of white trash south accent and western England x)
@@vergespierre4271 So which continent is black ?. There's no black continent where so called black Americans came from . It was all Africa and her mistakes.
I beg you all to just sit back and marvel at the genius that is African. We survived what many couldn't. And we are so forgiving, that to this day, whites can sleep with both eyes closed, write our history and tell us where we came from, what they did to us, and who we are. To all of those making racist comments, racism is a cancer. It's that kind of thinking that got humans in this rachet state that we are in now. Unlearn what you've been taught and embrace TRUTH. GOD BLESS.
this sound like jamaican patois . LOL love it however and very interesting.
It’s beautiful how more and more white people have learned and respect the history of AAVE and don’t call it “ghetto” anymore recently this year.
@behindthehaze Wi langwij cum from Krio (Sierra Leone) likka meny ob wi ancesta dem.wi langwij da closa tuh Krio den Jamaican Patwa o odda ress a Caribbean creolized langwij dem!! Tenki tenki fah notice wi langwij en culcha!!
MI lub disyah langwage summuch... E' ain nuttin likka yeddi de langwage ob mi ancesta dem... Wi gwine keep disyah langwage fah gah en stey scrong fah trut!!
Sounds like patwa
Even though I'm black and don't speak like that, I could understand some of it. lol
gullah sounds very similar to the creole english that blacks from belize and the carribean coast of nicaragua speak look it up and you will agree ....
My great grandmother from Alabama speaks like this. Just somewhat slowed and watered down. That's what happened to mainland blacks because we weren't isolated from whites. Oh those sweet African roots. I can hear the starting point from which the vocal inflection changes began. Wish we mainland blacks still had that strong and distinct African dialect and sound.
Yes my people are the same...from Tennessee
I think blacks in the islands like Jamaica had an advantage over us in the USA. It seems they were able to hold on to their African roots more. We were stripped of everything in the US...religion, food, music....
+Nicole Cruz Yes Jamaicans we're able to retain more of an African influenced sound because there was a higher ratio of black s to whites than here so blacks had less exposure to whiten accents and therefore their African sounds were much better preserved. That and the fact that infant mortality rates were higher there necessitating the importation of more Africans thereby refreshing the African character of the people. In the US our infant mortality rates were lower resulting in more generationally American Blacks thereby further distancing us from our African linguistical characteristics.
I grew up in rural Mississippi and the black people around us spoke similar to this also. Not the same and slower, but still similar.
Nicole Cruz no we wasn’t, I’ll be all day trying to explain to you...
@braynex1 Anyone is capable of learning to speak both ways, depending on the context. You don't have to lose your "blacklish" to gain formal english. You can speak both. It's called code-switching, and plenty of people do it successfully.
for all of you interested in Gullah , i recommend you to listen Southern rag by Blind Blake. that record was made in 1927 , and he actually talking about Gullah and Geechee's with their accent.
@JHaines57 I don't understand why some people (Caucasian racists) like you troll YT videos for anything pertaining to the AA experience in the first place. Your antagonism toward us is obvious, your bias against us is obvious and I'm not sure why you feel the need to put your two cents into anything in the first place. Why should your opinions even be relevant?
i can understand everything they said
Mbn I’m from South Carolina and I’m just like 🧍🏾♀️
This is so interesting. I never knew about this culture. When I was a child Nickelodeon had a show called Gullah Gullah Island, but I never knew that it originated from this vibrant culture.
I remember watching this documentary when it first aired in England. I can relate to the language being an off spring to Caribbean parents. Caribbeans in England should take pride in the patois they speak and not let anyone tell us it's bad English. It's the dialwct we've mansged to preseve after the brutal past our Ancestors endured with white slavers. Look at how so many people are copying our lingo and accents and claiming it as theirs but we don't do the same with others.
Im AA but I live in an area with a lot of Yoruba and Igbo immigrants and I hear that W.African "Tang" in their voices. Very interesting
I often can hear where our dialects derive from when hearing Nigerians and West Africans speak. They have the same tenor in their voices as AA. Even the way we use words, such as dat, dis, da, dem, dey. It's the mix of English and West African dialects for certain.
@@Meso504 😂😂😂yeah right
It is amazing how that 'pigeon english is similar to that in the Caribbean.
african american english is the most beautiful english accent
Not even close lmaoo
i live in california, family from texas/alabama. so proud i wasn’t white washed. i hear as clear as day
@JHaines57 Don't speak about things you don't understand; learn a thing or two about *linguistics* before you start spouting POPULIST nonsense like claiming that one dialect is inferior to another. Language variation is everywhere, and it is in nobody's place to say that one group of people's way of speaking is improper simply because it's different than the majority's. Criticizing an entire language or dialect makes about as much sense as criticizing a species of animal or plant.
amazing !!...being a white boy from new jersey, this is fascinating to me...i never even heard of these american people before i saw this video...i learned a lot just by watching this !!
It sounds so cool! It just sort of runs and flows!
@johnnygamer2011 ALL THE HELL WE BLACKS BEEN THROUGH AS A RACE! WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE RACIST, WHICH I AM , I HAVE NEVER CALLED A WHITE PERSON A FRIEND AND NEVER WILL., I COULD NEVER SAY I LOVE A WHITE PERSON, WHITE PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE SYMPATHY! ARE RESPECT!
A lot of Gullah have Caribbean roots and there was a lot of two way immigration from the mainland and the islands especially during early slavery. A lot of Bajans have connections to those living in South Carolina Sea Islands. Not exactly sure but something to do with Sierra Leone area and slaves that came from there.
This how people talk in Charleston,SC Charlemagne The God from there
@usaf317 Can you read? I didn't say that hip-hop was a culture, I said that it is an aspect of a culture. Most of the language in the garbage rap that you may have been exposed to may be curse words, materialism, half-naked women and so on, so forth, but there are so many more aspects to hip-hop than what the mainstream is exposed to. Just because YOU can't understand it or relate to it doesn't mean that it isn't music. Opinions are like assholes.
@JHaines57 lol there was nothing false about what I said nor was there anything relevant OR substantiated in your nonsense arguments.
There are similarities between Gullah and Jamaican and Guyanese creole....at 1:53 it sounded exactly like Guyanese creole!
Take that Christopher Columbus. Y'all could never fully erase anybody's culture.
@JHaines57 Actually it's not a 'claim' and it has nothing to do with lip service. Google the stats if you are unsure. lol it's amazing that you can admit that due to stereotypes that women more than men need to prove their worth, but because of your racist bias you can't extend the same reasoning to other minorities. Your racism is also exposed when you automatically assume that standards are 'lowered' in regard to African-Americans.
@JHaines57 Another term for "established" or "professional speech" is "whiteness." In other words, you could say, "blacks should give up their culture, heritage, and history, ignore the structural, spatial, and social disparity that continues to exist as a result of it, and act the way that the white cultural wants them to." You see, as a white person it is difficult to understand that THAT means "be who we want you to be, or suffer."
This is awesome...
@JHaines57 The one group that benefits the most from affirmative action are not people of African descent I can assure you, it's Caucasian women. So umm...is there a skepticism that they got where they are for having earned it?
@JHaines57 I wouldn't say people are incapable of speaking the so called 'established' grammar, listen to how the woman in this video switches from one variety of English at 0.35 to another in 0.40. Most people are capable of switching their dialect if they wish to do so, but that is their choice.
As for "formalized structure", formalization can be prescriptive or descriptive. That is, it can be formalized by some authority saying "this is correct, that is incorrect", or it can be formalized by a scholar who examines the structures present in actual speech or writing. Any language or creole has a formal structure, regardless of whether it is considered "correct".
No there not ahch...you never heard of the GEECHEE/GULLAH in South Cack and Georgia? They sound similar because their accents have the same origins.
@Mrcstigallese haha u basically just spoke krio (sierra leonean)
@JHaines57 How exactly does either "ebonics" or hip-hop stereotype anyone? They are aspects of African-American culture.
@criollokid80 Because the economic, social, and cultural elements of American society are largely divided along racial lines--particularly between "whites" and blacks; a history book might help you understand why that is.
me too. I just about followed that woman's whole story. When the first lady slowed down a bit, I understood her too. I guess cause I'm from the south. Some of us still speak like that.
Can Gullah/Geechee speaking people understand Jamaican patois speaking people?
Yes. Both Gullah/Geechee and Patois are mixture of English-Creole and West African languages
Lizzie Beth sometimes yes! Or so I've heard
Yes, we can. Very similar dialects.
gullah geechee speaking person since birth and i absolutely have no clue what my jamaican friend of three years is saying when he speaks patois..
@@blkindians7974 I'm of Gullah Geechee ancestry and over the years I've come to learn just how much we never lost when our ancestors were stolen from Africa.....shouting in the church, talking at the preacher when he preaches, the term gwine, the dental clicks, steatopygia depending on the African tribe, the extreme height....
depending on the African tribe, the name Baybay. I'm so glad all this self hate and shame of being African descended is finally subsiding....although we got a long ways to go!
I have a spiritual gift and have dreamed quite often, since I was young, of being in various African tribes/villages back before Muslims Christians, Arabs, Europeans invaded Africa.
It was beautiful, peaceful and hot as hell but nobody was ever bothered by the heat. They loved it and saw it as a blessing. Men and women were both equal and spiritual leaders could be male and female.
There wasn't any of this mess you see today. They were proud people. I've known the lands of Africa many times!
@behindthehaze Wi langwij cum from Krio (Sierra Leone) likka meny ob wi ancesta dem.wi langwij da closa tuh Krio den Jamaican Patwa o odda ress a Caribbean creolized langwij dem!! Tenki tenki fah notice wi langwij en culcha!!
@criollokid80 well you highly think wrong..I am a native of southcarolina and nobody knows this lanuage unless it was passed down to you from your relatives.
The context is completely cultural. In some cultures it is rude to eat with utensils or not to eat the entire meal. So it is apples and oranges. Most of our ettiquette comes from European (English, French, etc.) philosophies of social vocabulary. Also, people will hear you talking in a certain vernacular and think that you are uneducated or unprofessional because of social stigmas. There are intricacies people are too ignorant/ lazy to understand.
If you're saying "okay" is from french, it's not. The olt occitanword you're refering to is "Oc", which ment yes in the south of france. But the most significant areas of french emmigration to the americas isn't the south, it's the mid west, where we don't say "oc"
I am studying “African American Vernacular” for my Eng class and I was wondering if anyone has come across other videos that have tackle the origin or the evolution of “African American Vernacular” or papers? Thanks UA-camrs!!
People always wanting to know what others are doing and saying and why they say it. We didnt plan it it was to get others out of the buisness of knowing what we are doing.
It is obvious JHaines57 has never studied English language or linguistics at undergraduate level. I'm afraid lacortina1 is right, i know you don't want to believe it, but cortina's right.
@JHaines57 like the previous poster said, English is the usage of English, it is understanding and being understood, THAT is what makes it proficient. As for standardization, that's difficult as language is not set in stone, it changes all the time. Everyday spoken English is about expression, creating an effect, joke telling tag questions, ummings and ahhings, hesitation, repetition and so on. You can't standardize spoken English.
a lot of gulla people came from angola today portugues have taken over again because of oil riches so the gulla have more right to angola than the portugues lets talk about that
@JHaines57 I was referring to the present AA culture. How do you know they are incompetent at speaking standard English? People adapt the way they speak depending on who they are speaking to. Listen, there are many many varieties of English throughout the world. American English is different to British English is different to Irish English and so on. What is considered standard English in American English, might not be standard in British English.
If I understand correctly, then the historic speech of African-Americans meets the definition of language, and not just a dialect.
In this sense, African-Americans are bilingual.
I am Pennsylvania Dutch and am trilingual: I learned Pennsylvania Dutch at home, English in elementary school and High German in high school.
No.
I don't look down on the people who speak this language; in fact, I admire them and find the rich history and culture of the language extremely fascinating. I just wish I could understand them better.
Im blessed to speak like dis in Charleston sc.
I’m from Columbia, SC so idk what y’all are saying I’m kinda jealous 😞
I tell ya boys , i tell ya , i just love that there southern accent of yall.
This documentary was much longer and also looked at a lot of words developed out of the jazz era in New York/Harlem I wish I could find it.
well you should learn that dialect.African american english is rich in colours and influences, it is like a dish full of flavours of the past with trendy modern features. Its too bad people are ashamed of it ( it ian't hard to figutre why) everything that has an afro tag on it has been demonised from the wi to america.lol! @ 03:48 to 03:52 that woman is mad funny.
Just amazing how these stormfront ideologies and fears are EVERYWHERE in the comment sections of black conscious related youtube movies...
My family talked like this and they originate from Alabama
They're not "errors" in African-American English or British Black English. Any linguistics student would tell you that. AAE and BBE have their own grammar, different than that of Standard English. And those verbs you call "a wreck" are grammatically correct in AAE or in British Black English. We need stop being so prejudiced against certain dialects and languages. Greetings!
@tokinblckgie Oh, NOW you're going to pull the "you're not backing up your points" act, when I gave plenty of justification and arguments in previous posts, all of which you chose to ignore, to keep repeating the same lines about "why should blacks conform to eurocentric ways" when I told you exactly why we ALL do.
I just dropped that last line because you clearly are not listening or addressing my points. You're just grandstanding with the same old, tired afro-apologetic statements.
the world spoke only one language at one time God confused the language because Nimrod was trying to build a city to keep the people together and to control and give himself glory , so i don't understand why people trip because black people speak different . they were taking from their land and force to live under the standard of another race so they kept some of their language way and mixed it in with english must they be under total control of another language?
@JHaines57 man just stop...if your not even of black decent why are you even commenting on on this video...? why does it even matter for you...how the hell can you say that when the gullah islands where not even inhabited by slave master..this is why I asked you not to comment on something you know nothing about..
your understanding of a thing has little to do with the validity of that thing.. whites are beautiful people is an opinion spearheaded advancements no sir that is not true humans did those things created a standard, its called pidgin english if you had any understanding of english you would know that english itself developed from a creolization process.
oh my god that woman dressed in purple is so fucking pretty omg D;
Most of that is local-- not in the entire nation of US
Their dialect sounds like a mixture of the Black english we hear today and Jamaican Patois.
Many linguistic features of the Southern American dialect actually derive from African languages. Yes, there was exchange in both directions. But some specific features like "I done did it" have no antecedent in English prior to the slave trade, but closely parallel the grammatical structures of West African languages.
hell no!! they are black true southern black dey aint no people the carribean dey got true soul which people in the carribean dont have aint nver goin have so that insult
They used to call Bahamians "salt water Geechees" in Florida.
1. What do you mean by crisp?
2. Hermano, are teaching speech therapy or English classes in our neighborhoods?
@usaf317 Actually it's not a culture, it's a subculture. Not all hip-hop is crap. I hate mainstream hip-hop but there are a LOT of lesser-known/underground artists who are brilliant. It's a matter of opinion anyway. I happen to think that most alt rock and country are total crap but that's just my tastes.
The history of Ebonics.
"They don’t think it be like it is, but it do."
Sorry, I mean up until about 1800. Up until the First French Revolution in the 18th century, the famous one, not the three later ones.
This kinda sounds the how most Bahamian people speak now
i think bc we all share sm in common yk. Like my family is Jamaican yet so many Can mistaken it for a African, or British accent. It’s cool and so mixed.
After the wars some left for the Bahamas.
It's almost exactly the same in a way. Enslaved Africans in the Bahamas came from the same places as Enslaved African Americans. The linguistic origins would have been the same but evolved in a different environment. We also don't consider that many people from the Caribbean were sold as slaves to the United States. That deeply influenced African American language and culture.
@@Meso504 other way around they went from Southern US to Bahamas after the Revolutionary War.
I bin don do am is still spoken in Nigeria as I have done it since.
I was applying for a job and this White guy interviewing me went to get a White co worker. "Listen to how well she speaks!" I didn't know the things I know now or I could have schooled him. Then when I was a little older and working at a job where I encountered a young White pilot who was adamant at making me feel inferior to his race. He said he had married a blonde, blue eyed White woman with ivory skin. He started comparing the races. He said " Mexicans are cute but got too fat and Black women were at the bottom of the totem pole. "They are loud, and too manly." Then he started talking about how we talk. "I've come to the conclusion that Black people have thick tongues that's why they can't say certain words." On and on he went until I could no longer listen to his gibberish. I had not , even then, learned our history. When I was in school we did not have Black history month. But I started wondering what were they teaching for Black history because in these two encounters these two White guys hadn't learned anything. Yet, I too didn't know anything. I found White people were in denial of any atrocities brought on by their hands. They presented themselves as saviors of the so called Negres, Negroes, Colored people, African Americans, . N--- ! Black people. The names were constantly changing just like Deuteronomy 28th chapter said.
It's really pathetic that they won't even consider the fact that they would not allow us to learn their language for 400 years. It was considered as treason if any White person taught a slave he was fined or jailed. And the Black slave found trying to learn was strung up and beaten an inch of his life. The Hebrews were not allowed to speak their own language even among themselves. Then after slavery for 100 years Hebrews were still not allowed to attend White schools. So formal education was never allowed here in our land of captivity. We were virtually shunned and the butt of many jokes by the White community for the way we talked. And if a Black could speak as well as a White person he was called an uppity N- . It was considered as being INSUBORDINATE. This could result in a beating also.
Then they ridicule us for the food we eat. The food we ate were parts of the hog the White man did not care for. They ate the ham and pork chops. The slaves ate to survive. Everything left on the pig was eaten, It was called the SLAVE DIET.
BECAUSE OF OUR STUBBORNESS OUR GOD, YAH, FORSAKED US TO BE TAKEN INTO CAPTIVITY BY OUR ENEMY....THE DEVIL'S OFFSPRINGS.
I know right! I think all people of color are fascinating. Indians, Native American, African American, Mexican, Chinese everybody. We are a beautiful people! :)
I study sociolinguistics and we talked about African American Vernacular English in class today, so this video is very interesting. It's really unique how these people in this video has managed to hold on to the original African American English variety the way it first was developed. Also interesting to hear how it differs from Standard English in terms of grammar and speaking.
i wonder if some of them can still speak the original african languages
This group of people have their own culture, separate and apart from both the White and Afro-American cultures. They have wonderful recipes and a style all their own. They are a very hearty culture and very respected.
theresa bollman ❤❤
Many African-Americans come from gullahs and cooked like that before becoming Americanized.
You stupid our culture come from the south. Stop trying to separate my people
@tokinblckgie as prejudice is not quite the same as "eurocentrism", and it's different than the things we were earlier talking about, which was about professional and social standards.
Blacks dumbing down their performance, though, as you put it, may come from stereotyping but is it necessarily "eurocentism"? Blacks actually stereotype themselves more than white people stereotype them. I.e. hip-hop, ebonic speech, anti-intellectualism, etc.
Of course both sides need to be looked at, I agree.
here from Twitter, imma learn
I kind of want to study this...
Everyone mad at Black American patois, be mad at the White Cajuns too. Nit pick on their talk as well. Some people need to get over themselves.
Very interesting!
The bible part is sad, but what can ya do.
It's very interesting, isn't it? I am American-born but have been abroad for a couple of decades & am w various Africans daily. I asked one recently where he's from, how many languages are in his country (36 I think) & how do they communicate, & he said a platform of English, at this point. Much less French than before.