Throughout Louisiana's colonial and postcolonial periods, there evolved a highly specialized vocabulary for describing the region's buildings, people, and cultu

Throughout Louisiana's colonial and postcolonial periods, there evolved a highly specialized vocabulary for describing the region's buildings, people, and cultu

Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in m

"Mwen Ka Ale" presents the story of Grenada's French-lexicon Creole in narrative and multimedia form. The voices of the aged keepers of this rich language bring

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