Akan/ Ghanaian words in Jamaican Patio #history #storytelling #ghana #jamaica 

There is a history to that.

@@Philjoe Thank you.👍

@@Philjoe JAMAICA USE YANKIPONG AND AKAN ALSO USE ONYANKOPONG WHICH REFERE TO ALMIGTHY GOD

@@georgeappiah8314 yep, same. I spelt it using the Asante twi alphabet!!😂

Your point is also right

Some nigerians too

@@davgar4241 About 1.3 million Nigerians/Beninois/Cameroonians and 1.2 Ghanaians. The Akans known then as Coromantee were preferred for their work ethic but were feared because they were warriors and organized mutinies.

Am glad you enjoyed the video

That is right. Many Igbo and Yuroba

As an offspring of enslaved african in Suriname, we have a language speaking in the southern part(countryside) the same phraseologie "poto poto" and the same meaning. mud

I would have love this growing up!

That is a great idea. It would be good

It would be good if twi was taught in Jamaican schools. It is a lovely language

Respec gena

✊🏽do not let anyone rejuvenate you, you do it yourself before the consummation of our time.goodluck with that,all the Best. If not today,then tomorrow ✊🏽

You are welcome, if you need a warm reception let us know

I am glad the video connected with you.

Mi seh I used in jamaica more when someone say mi a seh . It when someone is repeating their self

@@shanicebrown1585Yes, I agree with you, that is true.

So true mi seh means "I said" and mi a seh means "I am saying" ​@@shanicebrown1585

Ow yuh mean! Dem time deh a man would a seh, "mi look and mi seh!" Mi seh dey, mi seh deyyo. belefonte kromanti ;)

Thank you my dear

Dukunu means help to you all in the igbo peoples Language. Related to working In the farms. Strength.

​@@mbrowne8166here in jamaica we nyam dukunu

Really?

Actually it's kweku Ananse and Ntekuma.(Tucuma).just my one cent .

I was born in Jamaica, and my grandmother was a black complexion woman. I knew of all these stories told to me as a child. There is one that you failed to mention. I'm aged 70 years, but i can recall in the stories a bull called "Gashawnio."

if you have a jamaican passport its visa free for ghana,gambia,kenya, zimbabwe,south africa,egypt, ethiopia...........

I am glad this is of help. Share what you know. It's about learning about each other and bridging the gap.

So happy to hear from you too sister. You don't know how most of us also get worried about you our long lost kin. Ever since I found out about the transatlantic slave trade. I just cant help wonder how you and all my cousins scatteted all over the world are doing. Thank God for technology. Now we can catch up on lost time.

I am extremely happy for your I formation. I as an African who was born in Jamaica considers your information as part of my journey back to the mother land. This could be in the physical form or just mental and cultural. I vaguely remember a book that was associated with the university of the west indies, which had either tried to or did show many common words to Africa and Jamaica. If you know of any literature that have that information, would you please add it to your blog. I would love that and if I may speak for my St. Vincentian and other African people outside of our homeland, may you be further enlightened and able to pass on your knowledge to all of us at home and abroad.

I love what I am hearing. Grew up with those words in Jamaica 🇯🇲 as we say one love ❤

Indeed, we a one people.

We would love and appreciate your teachings

It would be appreciated. Thank you.

Yes but we jamaicans still hold grudges as Africans sold our ancestors in slavery. We would have been in our west africa today had that never happened

@Dav Gar Where you get that from? Speak for yourself and stop mix people with something you hear Black Americans with. KMFT You're probably not even come from Jamaica. In fact you're definitely not Jamaican. Your profile pic says it all.

Its Twi - Ashanti language

The Spaniards kidnapped Nigerians for slavery. They spoke a different language than the Ghanian slaves that were brought to the Caribbean by the English. When the English arrived in Jamaica the Spaniards fled to Cuba and the Maroons fled to the mountains of Jamaica. The Nigerian-influenced vernacular remain remain to some extent with the Maroons. The Ghanaian influenced patois became the dominant England kidnapped the slaves from Ghana. What we are experiencing today in Jamaica is the merger of different languages and culture.

"Kromanti" language

Yes thats kromate language is the Akan language from central religion

Bless you, my cousin 🇯🇲🇬🇭

🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲❤️❤️❤️you my Ghana 🇬🇭 family

Jamaicans can infact speak Akan if they push this is by elimination of the English words it's a bit hard but I've done it to stop English speakers from picking up on what I'm saying

Ther is also something I learned is social studies that the reason we usually use iEE for both him and her is because it's from the mother land but those words from the mother land are fading from the younger generation.

​@@keneilrichards❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🔥🔥 I'd love to learn to do dis

As one of the not so older generation from JA I agree. The patois spoken by the younger generation in Jamaica today is a simpler version of the patois spoken by my generation, and it is even more simpler than the patois that my parents and grandparents used.

I am glad it helped you connect.

I hope so too

True the Akan use it as an adjective to discribe something extremely large... *Bafuuu*

@@myztroogeegibson3568 Thank you Sir 😊

I am 🇯🇲. This is true... One love

@@nikkirichards6272 Blessings 🙌

True 🇹🇹

@tyrone what the meaning of the "Bere smile" please ?

@@patrickopare1959 All smiles. 😀

@@MrRacecourser nice, i asked because in Akan/ Ghanaian language we have "Bebere" which means "alot"....so if i was to also write " bebere smiles" it will mean " alot of smiles" too

@@patrickopare1959 brother, this is amazing. It's just more proof that we are tied together deeper than geography. Patois is definitely from the same language base as Akan. This is so awesome.

@@patrickopare1959 you are right because when I used that word around regular English speaking people they give me what is saying look!

Well said 👏

I will definitely be putting outthe second portion of the video very soon.🩶

You are most welcome

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Sorry for your loss.

I was also born in JA. Spent the majority of my life in UK. Now live in Ghana since January.

@@Philjoe Jamaicans are taught history of slave trade from an early age so we know we are from West Africa.

@@kemigishanebra7988 where in Ghana do you live? I am building a house in Ghana now but still in UK

Miss Lou (the late Louise Bennet Coverley), who made us proud and confident in our dialect, did a talk on this, almost the same content. Shows that her research was solid.

Thanks for sharing 👍.

That sweet dokono version of Jamaica is called Abooloo or Fomfom in Ghana. In Ghana callalou is called Effae leaves

That sweet dokono version of Jamaica is called Abooloo or Fomfom in Ghana. In Ghana callalou is called Effae leaves

And in Ghana here too it's fruit also

Etokuma is supposed to be Ananse's son instead. And Okonore Yaa is the wife.

There is a major town called Mampong in Ghana. There's also Akropong. And many names ending with the ..mong sound. Surely, your word is connected to Ghana. Amazing❤️

Dave, the Maroon town Akompong is a direct derivative of Akropong. A town in the akwapim range of the eastern region.

@@wojaffochicago6591 thanks for that

Akompong is similar to Akropong in Akan meaning " A big town or community"

Akompong is an Akan name

Thanks for sharing.

Nigeria (Yoruba) will say “Shaka Shaka”

In Nigeria this is jaga jaga

Chaka Chaka is ga language, the indigenous people of Accra!

You are blood✊🏽

My aunt in Jamaica kept senseh fowls. Forgive the spelling 😊

really, if he is or was called Kofi then he was born on Friday. You know everyone in Ghana has a week name followed by the surname, both girls and boys when they are born.

@Frank Osei yes, I have taken the name Kojo Addo. I was born on a monday, and my father's grandmother mother's was called Nana Addo in guyana.

That's right.

@@afrog3569 oh really, beautiful. The present president of Ghana is called Nana Addo. The name Nana is the title of the Chiefs in Ghana. So when a child is called in Ghana after birth, the child becomes somewhat special. Both boys and girls can be called Nana.

The first rebellion in guyana was lea by Kofi in 1763. The second was led in 1823 which is considered one of the largest rebellions in British colonies. It was led by John Gladstone and his father, Quamina Gladstone . They were Akan.

No that’s called copying rather than making my own unique sound 😊

@@missbabyloved7531 copy ? We are brothers and sisters.. smh

@@missbabyloved7531 copying what exactly be happy for ur own self

@@Nononsense090 is dancehall and patois a Ghanaian origin or it has been forced on Ghanaians?

Thank you.

U most welcome

Welcome and thank you

Same here in Ghana

While visiting Ghana last year . We ate a a dish called poto-poto made with sweet potato and dried fish mushed together with spices. It was very tasty

You’re welcome 😊

Thanks

Plantain with pepper ginger garlic fried call calawola

@@johnstephens6378 Really? We call it Kelewele in Ghana. Sounds like same pronunciation.