GENERAL CREOLE HISTORY
Jamaican creole tends to lean/move towards a higher prestige language. What is this language?
English
French is to French creole
English is to
Spanish is to
English creole
Spanish creole
Mouth is to mout
As Brother is to
Bredda
Four common types/ varieties of creole in the Caribbean are French, Spanish, English and Tagalog.
False
Creole as mainly developed from interactions specifically in the Caribbean between?
Non standard varieties of European languages and speakers of non European languages.
List two varieties of creole in the Caribbean.
(A combination of any two)
Jamaican creole, French creole, Spanish creole.
Right now mi need James fi ____ the baby money come.
Sen
Caribbean and European countries do not display similar lexicon also Caribbean and African languages do not have any similarities in syntax structure.
False
Creole originated from what Portuguese word? What type of contact does creole result from?
‘Creoule’
Colonized and colonizing countries
I’m an exception to the creole language that developed in plantations.
Cape Verde, Brazil, Lesser Antilles creole
I just got home from school and (I am tired); not only am I tired but my brother (ate my) Food.
mi tiad
Nyam mi
Creole is said to be a low prestige and as such it is used mainly in private life, solidarity social relationships and popular culture, whereas the standard English example ‘British English’ is said to be high prestige language as it is used in education, administration and writing etc.
True
List two English creole and two French creole Caribbean countries.
English: Jamaica, Belize, Guyana etc
French: Haiti, Dominica, Guadeloupe etc
Another term for ‘Creole language’
Vernacular Language
By using front focus tell your Jamaican friend that you are extremely hungry in Jamaican creole using three words.
Hungry mi Hungry
Sound units, semantics, vocabulary and grammar are four characteristics by which Caribbean creole can be characterized.
True
Expansion and restructuring both can take place in Pidgin and Creole continua. However these changes leads to progressive normalization and stability. The general final outcome is?
Decreolization
I am a long term product of pidgin but I also have Lexicon descendants from ‘a language’.
Who am I?
Creole
House bottom
Eye water
Cut
Eye
Ignorance in Jamaican creole means lack of knowledge rather an act of anger.
False