Close-up of Portuguese-based Creoles

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CNRS Research Director Nicolas Quint takes us on an exploration of Afro-Portuguese Creoles, spoken from one side of the Atlantic to the other, in West Africa and the Antilles. These languages, originating in colonial history, are all related and most of them show great vitality !

Soropedia

If the definition of a creole language isn’t quite clear for you, please refer to our introduction to Creoles, Pidgins and Koines ! You may also follow up on this week’s blog’s subject by reading or re-reading our description sheets on the various mentioned Portuguese-based Creoles: Guinea-Bissau Creole, Cape Verdean Creole, Casamance Creole and Papiamentu.

New video

We join the Tuareg again this week: Moussa Ag Keyna, from the band Toumast, Abdelkrim Touhami and Mohamed Hamza, poet and teacher. They share their concern on the future of Tamasheq, a language of the desert which, although very much alive, remains threatened by a serious youth drain…

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News

September 6, 2011: France Culture aired on languages of the French Overseas, Paris. Listen again…

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Agenda

September 26, 2011: CAFE Bilingue roundtable on plurilingual children, as part of the European Day of Languages, in Paris.

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October 9, 2011: University of Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowships application deadline, Australia.

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Videos subtitled in Spanish

Following Kaqchikel, here comes Tektiteko : our Spanish-speaking friends can now see our freshly subtitled videos on this other Maya language spoken in Guatemala.  Speakers introduce us to their daily lives through two videos on the culture of corn and pottery…

Keeping in mind…

The word of the fortnight, which may come across as an invitation « To Learn » more and more languages !

And an updated Soroquiz on our homepage…

An excellent week to all of you !

The Sorosoro Crew

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