Louisiana Creole: A Language of Its Own | La Veillée

[@chilezp]

I wish creole Louisiana was taught in school In Louisiana because it’s dying. My grandmother,aunts and uncles all spoke Louisiana Creole all my life.

[@Dragoncam13]

I agree honestly,in my case the only fluent speakers I knew personally were native speakers like my grandparents and one of my dad's brothers

[@CanePollFishermon]

This hit home for me. I live in Texas and my family was from Louisiana and they spoke Creole and I also can speak a little but understand it very well. I really enjoyed hearing this.

[@alwayssearching1203]

It is nice Louisiana Creoles are passing down this unique language (a mix of *native-born Western African,* *Western European* and *Native American* languages) to keep this beautiful and varied culture alive. I see you guys are already succeeding progressively at it. Wish you great luck in your endeavors.

[@rod-jeaneldora8669]

This beautiful, I'm proud to be creole. Coming from a different region, it's astonishing to see creole parle, creole comprendre.

[@saintseer9578]

Bon djòb avek vidyo-la toukèkènn. Réprézenté pou lakilti, fyær Kréyòl LaLwizyann 🤙

[@YAHking12]

Éy laba wé no gain pou gaddé langaj la vivian

[@_-Miami-Vice-_]

Can you anderstand french west indies creole !! Ou ka komprann kréyol lé zinde diwés fwansé !! Vous pouvez comprendre le créole des Indes françaises de l'ouest

[@louisinese]

@@_-Miami-Vice-_very similar, maybe the closest 😂

[@louisinese]

@@YAHking12without food, practices and language a culture dies.

[@_-Miami-Vice-_]

@@louisinese Sé sa mém !! Haitian creole is different too

[@mz.cayenne1720]

I pray they bring Creole french back in Louisiana schools. My grandma, mom whole family still speaks Creole French. It's very important our younger generation keeps the language alive.

[@mamacitabella1759]

Do you speak Louisiana Creole?

[@Saltyboy972]

Pas perde to creole

[@alwayssearching1203]

It’s important for all younger generations to keep it alive.

[@antoinettenoel1569]

I remember my grandmother speaking Creole French but I also remember her telling me that she was forced to not speak it or would be hit if she did. It's sad that this language died because others didn't understand it. My grandmother refused to teach it to her kids and grandkids because of how she was treated.

[@ToniRoni708]

Wow! We have the exact same experience. My grandma only spoke French though. When her mom died she was 16 and was forced to speak English. She then learned creole. Never truly passed it down but my family understood and understands the language. It’s truly a dying language but I’m going to learn it and teach my children as I am from Louisiana myself but living in California. This state wants you to be transformed and you have to blend in. But I make it a point to speak to my kids in Ebonics at home to preserve what I do have.

[@YosefNasi]

It was the same way with my great grandmother not wanting to teach her children(my grandmother and siblings). This could’ve been our own family thing.

[@valmarsiglia]

As a speaker of European French, I'm delighted to see that I can understand Louisiana Creole very well, and now I want to learn it.

[@mamacitabella1759]

Je suis américaine mais j'ai appris ma langue française lorsque j'étais enfante. J'adore, J'ADORE, ces accents, et c'est plus facile for moi a comprendre. Sorry if my spelling and grammar is all over the place, i havent used the language in 30 years. Mais je l'adore, encore!

[@dampillay4866]

Stunning similarity with Mauritian creole as spoken by H.Wiltz. I could understand everything from T. Auguste too although a more frenchisized creole. And mind you Mauritius is very,very....very far away.

[@Dragoncam13]

Yeah I noticed,Taalib speaks his Creole in a more Francocized way while Herber speaks it in a more relaxed way like my family members did

[@DrJLP55]

Merci pour ce beau partage qui m'a beaucoup aidé à mieux comprendre mes cousins de coeur dans le sud des États-Unis. Lâchez pas!

[@ScorpioMami415]

Proud⚜️ Louisiana Creole⚜️ I grew up in a Creole household many of my family members spoke the language but they were from back home in nawlins. I really wish they taught our language in school so beautiful.❤❤❤❤

[@aleajactaest7242]

Bonjour de France, il y a des petites différences mais j'ai tout compris ! Le Créole de Louisiane ressemble énormément au Créole parlé dans tout l'océan Indien ! Vous avez tout mon respect Bravo Hi from France, there are small differences but I understood everything! Louisiana Creole is very similar to the Creole spoken throughout the Indian Ocean! You have all my respect Bravo

[@rnabenett]

Passage du pouvoir aux anglophones. 1803 pour la Louisiane et 1810 pour l'île de France et Bourbon. 😊

[@laurahall3094]

Unlikely to be authentic. Nontraditional usages and poor word choice.

[@lionelriley4268]

Proud of you talib

[@chichimocm]

Props to this young mans family for teaching him and keeping a dying language alive

[@jonasbrown1]

j’aime trop que cette chaîne existe du tout ! c’est beau que la louisianne défende au moin une de ses langue.

[@e.c.5024]

Appreciate the lesson in Creole language.

[@larrydwilmore8314]

I want to learn Louisiana Creole. I’ve search for it but all I can find is Haitian Creole. We go places and ppl swear we are speaking Creole at a minor level and asks if we’re from New Orleans but I guess it’s just our accents. My great great grandmother is from New Orleans but they moved around Louisiana because of having a very large family that kept expanding and forcing them to move again and again from Opelousas to Mossville, to West Lake and even completely out of the state to Texas, California, one of the Carolina s but my great grandmother settled in Lake Charles. Because of this my mom’s and my generation did not learn the language and everyone who did were/are else where. So we speak the standard English language as well as some Spanish. I won’t my baby nephew to begin learning so he can pass on and continue our native language. I also want to learn a bit myself

[@jeauxmayo]

I also have two short videos in my profile but they are not extensive

[@fassadine6352]

Bébé it was the hatians living in Louisiana who spoke kreyòl. I can understand everything they are saying. Haiti Martinique Guadeloupe st lucia still speaking creole. Jim crow Era most haitians left, After hurricane Katrina the rest of the creole people left Louisiana. The people now living in Louisiana are not creole. The usa government sent the germans other people there and call themselves Cajun. They kept the vodoo culture to make money. The language and the food is gone. The Cajun and the other blacks could not recreate. That is why now you have gumbo without gumbo. And gumbo with flour in it. More like gravy to me.

[@darria10295]

No. Respectfully. We are separate culture/language from Haitians. Please respect our culture so we can properly respect yours. ♥️

[@pebblesceleste1633]

@@darria10295 And Haitian Creole is different than ours. I had a supervisor who spoke Haitian Creole, I could understand her a little bit (I'm not fluent in Louisiana Creole) but not too much. Even my Aunt who was fluent in Louisiana Creole could not understand her.

[@rebeccapierre2500]

This creole is slightly different from the crole of Caribbean islands like St Lucia🇱🇨 and Dominica...it contains much more french...I understood everything though..Much love to all creole speakers aroundthe world!!

[@EmmanuelLouissaint-y6n]

It sounds really Beautiful. I speak Haitian creole and i understood everything🔥

[@DNilo07]

Woow Louisiana kreyol is very similar to mauritius kreyol😮😮

[@GdHNightshade]

J'ai comprends tous de ça, le créole de la Louisiane c'est très beau pour j'admire tes accents.

[@victoriaallemond3911]

When I started school I couldn't speak english..only Creole.. what were the teachers to do with me.. early 60s ..there were French nuns from Canada.. so they sent me to them..when I would use a Creole word and not English would hit my palm with a ruler.. no shyt..I understand every word..but.. 😢😢😢😢 I can't speak it..I'll be reteaching myself this year.. I DO NOT LIKE NUNS.. AT ALL

[@Radtrad1221]

Victoria, I'm so sorry the nuns hit you. I don't know what crawled up them and died back in the day. I'm a little biased because I love nuns. My sister in law is a nun and 2 of my little sisters are discerning to become nuns but don't worry, they are very nice now!! So don't hate them, I'm sorry you went through that!

[@GramsMusick158]

My great grandmother had the same experience with cruel nuns when she was placed into an Indian school. A lot of lost history because of this

[@jeauxmayo]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Mo komensé aprenn Kouri Vini pou minm razòn-la

[@aurora-l2g]

Bouggg, to dwa fe mizik en kreyol

[@YAHking12]

Bon gaddé cá vivin mo linmé nou langaj

[@foxybrown683]

Sa ka fèt moun Louisian? Moin pa té sav zot té ka palé kréyol-la. Moin ka vréyé bel bonjou di Matnik. (Martinique).

[@WarofContrition]

This is such a wonderful program. Thank you fot sharing.

[@LouisEdwardSummers]

Very similar to Seychellois Creole too! ❤

[@ambersullivan227]

My great grandparents spoke it but never taught it to their kids cause they used it to talk about stuff they didn’t want the kids to know haha

[@shahgod5109]

Very on point👏🏿👍🏿🇭🇹

[@lefse2278]

Very cool, respect this man

[@Nclm1]

Génial, très intéressant

[@anselmolawrence839]

In the Caribbean we have many forms of creole we call them patois.The islands that speaks them have different variations due to slave influx just like Louisiana

[@KnewYawkPapi]

In Trinidad it’s a dying language. I wish I could learn

[@valmarsiglia]

En tant que Louisianais, quoique d'origine espagnole, j'ai appris le français métropolitain dans l'école. J'aurais aimé apprendre aussi le créole, mais malheureusement ça ne faisait pas partie du curriculum.

[@Righteousone18]

Even though he only says a few words here and there, Gambit from the X-Men got me interested in Louisiana Creole

[@Saltyboy972]

Bravo to gain pou pa perde to creole .

[@designermastiffskennels1983]

J’adore cette. C’est montrer moi que français jamais morte

[@kahlilasinkfield6765]

What book can i get to learn how to speak cerole

[@martinaubut5027]

The music reminds me cajun music played by Salebarbes.

[@everydaylifehacks688]

Am from Mauritius - Louisana creole is quite similar to Mauritian Creole

[@francoislepatriote3790]

Je suis francophone et je comprends à 90 % et sans effort Taalib et Herb Wilz... Je pensais que le créole louisianais était autant incompréhensible pour un francophone que le créole haïtien.

[@JoyeuxJovialement1]

Im french and black from Guadeloupe. It sounds a mix of guadeloupean and guianese creole.

[@mohamedalawy6172]

Abdul mu Taalib was prophet Mohamed grandfather

[@robertwaguespack9414]

Cet Jeune garcon me donne espoire pour lafuture.

[@neeleshprince14]

Very similar to Mauritian creol

[@lindsaycotte01]

Mo ene Mauricien et zot creole bien pareil avec nous.

[@gallermaez]

en Guyane française : Mo baye to di zé = je te donne des œufs et en Louisiane ?

[@sbart6591]

❤🙏

[@davidbazerd651]

Creol louisianne pareil couma creol Mauricien dans l’ocea Indien, Mr Herbs tout dimoune dans maurice ti pou comprend quand ou causé

[@marieannejeanjoseph]

The Fleur de Lys is a flower that comes from America and not from Europe .!

[@isaiahrawlison7211]

Yo pa pale kreyol, yap pale francais la lwisyan. Se pa mem bagay la.

[@LilliLamour]

No, they speak Creole. Cajuns speak Louisiana French.

[@glrendon81]

The show hosts are speaking in Louisiana French but if you keep watching you will see that the guests they interview for this episode are Louisiana Creole speakers.

[@whoahna8438]

French in American media accent, interesting

[@georgisjerome5334]

🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹✌✌✌

[@moimemelru1054]

Vréman, sa ka fè moin plézi lè an ka tende yo palé

[@manouchekacherenfant1527]

They should say Haitian Creole. Am Haitian and I understand everything.

[@katie5737]

Mr. Wiltz mentioned the similarity! It’s so interesting!

[@aubsta1]

Same, but it's rather different from Haitian Kreyol

[@chilezp]

It’s not the same as Haitian creole

[@Universityofuncommonsense]

Wish they would stop with this @@chilezp

[@HazelDell]

It's not Haitian Creole though. It's Louisiana Creole. These people aren't Haitian.

[@divinecharity4083]

This is French, though.

[@aubsta1]

More French than creole

[@elisearmer8306]

Yes, when you do not speak your language, you lose your culture, your family - which is why my culture language was illegal for 800 years, until just 2 years ago.

[@tunistick8044]

this is just anglicized french

[@anothervinnie7413]

Pas trop non

[@DesertVox]

What about the languages of the slaves? Huh? Only the kolonizers' languages deserve recognition?

[@septanine5936]

they were discouraged from speaking them and the ones that were formed have mostly been lost to time or incorporated into other languages

[@LilliLamour]

Why not learn our history to know that our ancestors were killed if they spoke their ancestral languages.