Creole language

North with Nicaragua and South with Panama. Costa Rica have many of cultural influences like Indianians, European, afrocaribean, and Asian. The official language is Spanish, but local Indigenous spoken Maléku, Cabécar, Bribri, Guaymi, and Buglere; in addition, immigration to Costa Ricabrought Afro-Caribs, who spoke an English-bases creole language called Maketelyu or Patua. Costa Rica is very traditionalists also fallowing by Catholic Religion as predominant as a cultural legacy. As a example…

forced. Most Native Americans sided with the British because of the Proclamation of 1763 and The Quebec Act of 1774. The initial Venezuela movement for Independence was largely unsuccessful because the first Republic of Venezuela was declared by the creoles, consequently, many of the goals of the republic did not include non-whites. For…

difficult for me everyday having to learn a new language, which is English that I was certainly bad at, meeting people I can’t even understand and that would make fun of me because of how I speak, and just being afraid of my surroundings. It was a whole another experience that I had to face. I’m full Filipino born and raised in the Philippines so my mother tongue or my main language is Ilocano but I knew how to speak Tagalog as well. I speak these languages along with my family while having…

The Power of Words Language has been an important part of human evolution since its creation. In many cases, it is inferred that language contributes to the genius of the human mind. This is because language is what allows us humans to think and imagine everything in the world. Therefore, every word we say to refer to anything; is a metaphor that our mind creates to refer to things in existence. The complexity of all this is that language evolves when the meaning of words change. This can…

The term “Hispanic” broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a cultural link to Spain (“Hispanic,” n.d., para. 1). The terms “Latino” or “Latina” refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America and people of nationalities within the bounds of Latin America (“Latino,” n.d., para. 1). The term Latino can be used to refer to males or females, whereas the term Latina is used to refer to females only. The terms “Hispanic” and “Latino” can be used interchangeably to…

Castries, the Capital of the Caribbean Island, St. Lucia Author Derek Walcott has used the diversity of his home country, St. Lucia, as a main theme in many of his poems. Castries, the capital of his home country, has a very diverse culture due to a rich history and heritage, which is evident in their ethnic groups and unique dialect (Wikipedia Culture). Castries was founded in 1650 by the French after St. Lucia was purchased by, the governor of Martinique, Jacques Dyel du Parquet. The early…

It is important to know what language is being spoken because you will be able to look up words or phrases that you will need to ask or respond to. In Haiti their languages are Creole and French according to the 1987 constitution. Haitians are beautiful people. Not only because I am Haitian but learning that Haitians have great hospitality and know how to…

through the repeated performance of language. Humans echo familiar language in a tessellation to project a holistic impression of the self to other people, who are able to relate to our identity through the shared use of these patterns and symbols of speech. Furthermore, language is sometimes performed in defiance of the normative language varieties, to reform the identity of the self. This is because it is possible to negotiate and stylise language itself, as both language and identity are…

ENL: English as a Native Language is traditionally assumed to be a language that is acquired from birth without formal instruction (versus a language that was learned as a second or later language). ENL is also referred to as L1 (first language), mother tongue, or inner circle variety. An issue with the term “native language” or L1 lies in the fact that it is based on the premise of a monolingual society, whereas many societies are multilingual. In multilingual societies, a child may grow up…

Some of the consequences of English language being dominant were identified in an article by Mustapha (2014). They are the linguistic and communicative inequality. English Language has created a barrier or hierarchy amongst citizens of Nigeria. We have the elite group who speak “queen’s English”, some who speak “Nigerian English – pidgin” and others who cannot speak English at all. It now becomes difficult to interact with people who are not in your class thereby making English fail at its role…