Wayúu vs Garifuna

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[@JosephFlores]

Thank you!!! This video should have alot more views!!!

[@BrownieCin]

It's 4am and I just had to fight back a scream of excitement. This is amazing!! From a half Garifuna trying to learn a part of herself, I thank you sincerely. :D

[@rubenreyes5641]

You are welcome sister

[@rubenreyes5641]

The Garifuna was born to the Americas El Garifuna es nacido es engendrado en las Americas. Please share it! Favor de Compartirlo!

[@chacluc]

very educational/ steven lopez

[@HOPROPHETA]

Great work Ruben!

[@HOPROPHETA]

I dont know why the Dominican Kalinagu do not reunite with the Garifuna. They both fought colonization hard in the span between the 16th and 18th centuries and they are a sibling group to the Garifuna.

[@rubenreyes5641]

Thank you Hopropheta. It is different when we are the ones telling our own stories. I hope that the descendents of the great nations of Arawak and Caribs begin to join efforts to re-assimilate the language of their ancestors. Garifuna is a language that has has elements of both indigenous groups.

[@HOPROPHETA]

In South American Carib (Kalina/Galibi) the word for 3 is uruah!

[@HOPROPHETA]

Looked it up. Wayuu are Arawaks. Garifuna is an Arawakanized language that also contains Carib elements. Our Arawakan grandmothers changed the Male lead carib generations until only a few carib words like sanpula (Kalina sacred drum) remain. Garifuna have a family named Sambula after this sacred drum. Remember Kalina is part of the island carib name of Kalina gu or Garinagu. Kalina is South American caribs. Kalinagu are island caribs who intermarried with Arawakan women. The women took over and put their stamp on the Garifuna culture.

[@Beatricej62]

Garifuna language has only 2 awarak language plus French Swahili and Bantu

[@baltastarrzarr5201]

Great Discovery. I wish they had spoken in the Wayuu language when responding to the questions instead of in spanish.

[@constantineaztro9173]

Proof that the Wayuus are the tainos in history books the taino comes from Colombia ala South America. Puerto Ricans Cuban and Dominicans should claim their Arawak blood more. I know many Ricans who do which is good enough

[@nymytai885]

The wayuu are not taíno.. Taino is a tribe on their own..the wayuu are a tribe of thier osn they dont call themselves taino.. 😑the wayuu pre date the taino.. They are both of the Arawak speaking nations.. There's over 50 Arawak tribes. Taino is a sub group of Arawak... Ppl always want to call all Arawak taino when there's no taino in S.America. they descend from s.America. taino are of just a few islands of the Caribbean...

[@satanshameer690]

@@nymytai885 wayuu and Arawak have common origins. That's what he's saying. Also the Taino, caribs and garifuna(unmixed ones) came from northern south America

[@nymytai885]

@@satanshameer690 yes I agree but all I'm trying to say is there is no Arawak speaking group in South America who call themselves Taino.... The name Taino is reserved for island Arawak speaking groups..

[@satanshameer690]

@@nymytai885 k. But if you want to see closest pure blooded living relatives of Taino, go see wayuu.

[@nymytai885]

@@satanshameer690 i am of Wayuu descent ... I know Wayuu I am Wayuu ...

[@moonbeam603]

This is very interesting and I wonder what Dr. Theodore Aranda would comment about this. He considers the Garifuna purely West African, from the Mandinka tribes and were traders with the Arawaks. He said they were on those islands waaaay before Columbus was around and that Columbus and his son both talked about Black people on the islands. If this is true, why would the Mandinka tribe from Africa have such a similar language to an indigenous people ? Did they, as we were brought up to believe, simply mix with the indigenous people, even speaking more of their language and even adapting more to their ways? He does not believe this, he believes the Garifuna are purely African, no indigenous look or blood from the Arawaks he has met. I don't really agree with this, as I have seen many, not all, Garifuna people with indigenous features mixed with the African features. Although I do find Dr. Aranda's research and lectures on KZbin to be quite eye opening and so interesting, looking at this video with some language similiarities *(huya and biama) is surprising in the fact that perhaps the Garifuna ARE indeed a mix of Indigenous and African people, not solely from the Mandinka tribe as Dr. Aranda firmly believes.

[@Beatricej62]

He is so wrong

[@Beatricej62]

DNA prove your statement

[@chrisofmelbourne87]

Amazing. Why and how did these two groups meet? I never knew the Wayuu had linguistic links with groups as far as Belize & Honduras. WOW! Fascinating.

[@rubenreyes5641]

We met during a convention at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. We discovered each other.

[@chrisofmelbourne87]

@@rubenreyes5641 great!

[@JorgeCastillo-jq2tn]

This is evidence that our history predates Columbus and European arrival to this continent and we have double heritage. Our people must know about this.

[@kmj2000]

This is not evidence that it predates Columbus, just that Garifuna is an Arawakan language that came through St. Vincent. The changes in Garifuna are very recent.

[@JorgeCastillo-jq2tn]

kmj2000 Indeed this is evidence that our Garifuna language predates or was spoken on this continent before Columbus and the Europeans. I believe there is no disagreement that the first inhabitant of the Caribbean Islands were the Arawaks like the Tainos who occupied the Islands of the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Jamaica, Cuba and other surrounding Islands. The Arawaks were to be followed by the Caribs from South America. The Caribs use to conquer the Arawaks in war killing the Arawak men and taking their women and children to live in the Carib villages. The Arawak women refused to speak the oppressor's language (Carib). This is the reason why Columbus and other Europeans noticed that the women spoke one language (Arawak) and the men spoke another (Carib). The combination of the Arawak and the Carib languages heard by Columbus and the Europeans is the base of the Garifuna language we speak today. Garifuna was spoken not only in Saint Vincent but throughout the other surrounding Islands such Dominica, Barbados, Martinique,Trinidad and Guadeloupe to name a few. Garifuna is synonymous with Caribbean. When our ancestors were exiled from our motherland of St. Vincent they brought with themselves the Language, music, culture, religion, a nation and all what means to be Garifuna (Caribbean). Seremein Nitu.

[@sapointi]

Jorge Castillo papa de mi hermana es medio Garifuna. y nuestra mamá, una Mestiza de Ecuador. Mi abuelo sabe como hablar el lenguaje de los incas, Quechua. tienes una cultura y historia hermosa hermano. y quiero que mi hermana siempre sea orgullosa por su herencia Garifuna

[@YyYy-uh2sv]

Jorge Castillo you learned this language from the native people who had already lived here for thousands of years..... black comes from africa.....

[@constantineaztro9173]

@@YyYy-uh2sv yes thank you for this comment she typing non sense

[@Beatricej62]

I did know that the Arawak Indians had to come from South America

[@rubenreyes5641]

Hi Beatrice, yes. The Arawak and Carib came from the south-american region. Language is a unifying factor.

[@CitizenofTatooine]

Is it true that the Wayuu come from Taino refugees?

[@Ugushili]

Thanks Ruben.

[@rubenreyes5641]

+H F Lopez , Thank you for showing interest on the video. Wabaruaguóun! Please share it.

[@j2zel]

So I'm curious, since Wayúu, Garífuna, and the Taíno language of the north Caribbean islands are all part of the Arawak language family, can those who speak Wayúu and Garífuna understand any Taíno words... such as some of the town and city names in Puerto Rico? For example, we have the names Mayagüez, Humacao, Utuado, Orocovis, Yabucoa, etc. Do any of these kinds of Taíno words mean anything to a Wayúu or Garífuna speaker?

[@rubenreyes5641]

I can relate to Dominica (Weitugubuli) which means eather great body or great sea currents. We can easily convert Yabucoa into Garifuna as Yabugua, but it does not have a known meaning to me. None of those Puerto Rican Taino words ring a bell for me.

[@SupaMarioG]

Love the video