The Garifuna Collective - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) 

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Will Sanders ...what language are they using here? Thanks.

I came here to ask if this is the same Garifuna Collective that backed Andy and I can tell within the first few notes that it must be!

Rest in Peace

But the Garifuna language is 100% AMERICAN INDIAN Arawakan family and related to Lokono of Venezuela. Large group of words related to male activities including number 3 uruwa are from Karin'a language also of Venezuela but unrelated. That's a lot of pre Columbus history that begun as part of South American cassava culture: you find exactly same implements deep into South America, in some Caribbean Islands, in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua (yes we visited Orinoco settlement with my late Garifuna husband). Returning to Garifuna language: it borrows number system from French, alongside 167 VERBS; French sellers came to St. VINCENT before the English and had good relations. Of note is that Garifuna fought against the British alongside the French in the end of 18c. Still prior to that the language borrowed about 50 nouns from English. Now we have the year 1797: the British won that war. They want all the St. VINCENT for their sugar plantations. So they put 2,445 Garifuna men, women and children on ten Navy ships and go West to the island of Roatan, just so of the Caribbean Coast of Honduras which belongs to the Spanish. The rest is history as they say. The people band together with the Spanish against the British pirates and settle near Trujillo, Honduras. From there they expand and establish 52 villages along the Coasts of Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize. The language borrows some Spanish vocabulary. These lexical borrowings amount to little in Comparison with English or Japanese. Garifuna is as Arawakan as it can be. Garifuna are Black Indians. They were NEVER slaves. It happened that due to strong currents around the St. VINCENT Island many Spanish slaving ships wrecked there and the purported African slaves became free, settle on the Island and mix with the local Garifuna Indians accepting their language and customs.

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Sorry to hear. I know Tela. Went with Chi-chi man from Ceiba if you know him.

I went to a show in Placencia last weekend. She was there on stage with the rest. Awesome music!