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Antillean Creole (also known as Lesser Antillean Creole) is a French-based creole that is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles. Its grammar and vocabulary include elements of French , Carib , English , and African languages .
Biguine (/ b ɪ ˈ ɡ ɪ n / big-IN, French:; Antillean Creole: bigin) is a rhythmic dance and music style that originated from Saint-Pierre, Martinique in the 19th century. It fuses West African traditional music genres, such as Bélé, with 19th-century French ballroom dance steps. [1]
Masqueraders of Dame Lorraine would take part in elaborate skits and parodies of the early French planters. [6] These activities would take place during the event of Dimanche Gras. [6] The names of each character, including Dame Lorraine, were in French Creole. These included Ma Gwo Bunda (Madame Big Bottom) and Ma Gros Tete (Madame Big Breasts ...
A bélé is a folk dance and music from Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.It may be the oldest Creole dance of the creole French West Indian Islands, and it strongly reflects influences from African fertility dances.
Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.
Treemap of French-based creoles. A French creole, or French-based creole language, is a creole for which French is the lexifier.Most often this lexifier is not modern French but rather a 17th- or 18th-century koiné of French from Paris, the French Atlantic harbors, and the nascent French colonies.
Trinidadian English Creole is an English-based creole language commonly spoken throughout the island of Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago. It is distinct from Tobagonian Creole – particularly at the basilectal level [ 2 ] – and from other Lesser Antillean English creoles.
French Guianese Creole, a French-lexified creole language spoken mainly in French Guiana; Antillean Creole French, a creole language with vocabulary based on French spoken primarily in the Lesser Antilles; Haitian Creole, a creole language with vocabulary based on French spoken in Haiti; Louisiana Creole, a French-based creole language spoken ...