The Kromanti Language of the Jamaican Maroons (Final edit) 

we are scattered siblings, snap je?

Charla PickBeat SingSong I know

We lost children of Africa

chilk85 yhh it's the language spoken on Ghana by the akans... It's called Twi..

Angel Bart***** this people aboriginal to the americas.

Yes we should. Every year we should have two events. One in Jamaica and one in Ghana

The goverment need fi help us out a whole heap a jamaican waan fi come home...to the land of our foe father MAMA AFRICA ..await its creation... REPATRIATION....

Cat Selah you can migrate to Ghana, no need to get government help, Help yourself, Talent and a church of your belief will help. Ghanaian Government, are asking for people to come settle in Ghana. You have to pay your way to get to Ghana. Do some research, that will be a start to the way home.

@@cosmopolitanwonder9675 Church..ummm...i mite never reach..fi no reason i m goin to serve white god..

I understood just the word "obroni". LOL. That's what kids in Ghanaian villages shouted on us. Shame I didn't learn more of Twi

Moor/maurs doesn't mean black it means Mauritania which was located originally where Morocco is today...... maroon means run always, they were all over the Caribbean known as maroons.... maurs/moors was a term used by the Europeans to mean anyone dark skinned e.g. Asians, swarthy skinned or African people's.... the original moors/maurs were of modern day Mauritanian and Nigerian DNA....this is because if the moors ruled the iberian peninsular for 800 years and have no Arab DNA! But have Nigerian dna.... so for this we can know the maurs were from a nigerian tribe.....

These people are not moors they are descendants of enslaved black afrikans from different parts of west africa not morrocco and black people in amerikkka are the same not moors

@@tahliah6691 nah you're wrong ,in Greek moor literally means black . Are term they used to call learned Africans

Bobby E. Wright no proof

Indigenous DNA afrikan nerver

I think that is beautiful and VERY powerful and says alot about the AKAN people!

The people of surinam are also of Fanti origin. I worked at the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board for 7 years and we had a research project about the origins of the Surinamese and their Fanti orgins, culture and traditions which are the same as the Fanti tribes of Ghana. They even have the same naming traditions and Chieftancy traditions.

Guido Samson ... Yes your country needs more acknowledgement, because you all have been holding it down as long as us Jamaicans and Haitians. These are the countries that Africans can truly trace the path of their bloodlines. We have keep our forefathers alive. One love to Surinam!

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

Love you too sister we with you all the way

+Dennis Nimoh I am brother not a sister

+Jamaican Brick squad my bad fam ain't really look at your pic properly much luv my brother same way.

@ Kuntri : You make me so emotional 😭 this morning, there goosebumps all over me. One day we will live together under one umbrella ☔️ in peace ✌️. Until then they don’t want us to live in peace together! Shalom!

Ye gye wodo..."we acknowledge your greetings ".

Good Day, we the Granny Nanny Cultural Group are responsible for the preservation and conservation of Maroon culture. We are located within the New Nanny Town District within the Rio Grande Valley, and are comprised of the traditional families/bloodlines responsible for preserving the culture. We are descendants/living blood relatives of Nanny, and we still speak the language in everyday use, and it forms an integral part of our culture. We also produced an album which has a catalogue of a few of our songs. We may be reached at indigenousholistics@gmail.com for all inquiries. Medaase (Thank You)

Granny Nanny Cultural Group I’d love to know more. I’m eager to have serious contact with you. Please let me know.

Universe Boss TV : we'd be happy to discuss with you. You can contact us at indigenousholistics@gmail.com

I wish I knew how to speak the language, new aged patwa.

Granny Nanny Cultural Group I have deep maroon roots too my mother side of my family is from Moore town to this day I still have my family plot up there so I’d really love to meet some of my fellow maroon descendants I understood everything he said 100% even tho I recently discovered that this was a separate language from the patios

that's a good idea, if the people would be willing to learn.

Same people, same food, language, pet names, customs...one and the same.

Am Jamaican our ancestors was from Ghana. it's sad we were taken from our homeland force into slavery beaten out of our language and culture

kromanti is only a language among the Maroons, the official language is English, the only way a person can learn kromanti is if a person who is a Maroon teach them

Kromanti is not a language.. matter of fact it is Komanti and not even kromanti and komanti is a tiny village which perhaps never even existed in the 15th century. The Komanti are Akan people and their language is Twi.

Rip to him a great teacher 💪🏿

Really... I understood a little of what he said.. I am a Ghanaian and it's just like my language... Akan/Twi language.. Commonly spoken in Ghana

I hope he is still living. I would love to learn from him or someone who knows the language.

He definitely come from Ghana

Was your granduncles name Mr.Foster?

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

You are in the land of our ancestors.We are the lost children...in Jamaica and Caribbean

Abeng means horns or whistle

Kyle Patch I am Haitian and I speak creole. The French Carribean consider themsleves as bilangual as they speak both creole and French.

Kyle Patch patios to me reminds me of Mexicans speaking English and Spanish in the same sentence. Since it uses some African words. And it mixes those with slang.

Some of your Creole was carried and left over in my state of Louisiana

+Kyle Patch Yeah I noticed how people around the world and even the english would acknowledge patois as a language, but Jamaicans still view it as "broken english." I don't get why people would say that it's broken english but at the same time say that it is a combination of not only english but West African languages, portuguese, spanish, and french. Oh yeah that's definitely broken english (sarcasm). It makes no sense.

I find interesting that when Jamaicans and other Caribbean people dem speak in their dialects its considered a creole language but when black Americans speak in their dialects it considered bad english when alot of time the main difference is accent and pronunciation!

I am Jamaican and i agree.

The irony is, Isaac is my father's first name and Bernard is my brother's last name; still, Mr.Isaac and my father Isaac, resembles!🥁🥁

Thank you for pointing out clearly . Twi words . Not Komanti .. Komanti is not a language but a tiny town whose natives speak Twi .

@@tralbriggs104 Even more interesting and intriguing is the name Jamaica. Yes, I have read some where that was the name the original Indian inhabitants called their island. I beg to differ and interrogate that. As an Akan, the name distinctively rings and rhymes with an Ashanti phrase that goes like this: "Gyama yaka" (pronounced: Jama yaka) which was combined to read "gyamayaka" and eventually Jamaica. "Gyama yaka" translates to: "it looks like we are stuck here" or "we are stuck here". I am just curious, that must be the first words, like greeting salutation between two Akans whenever they met, expressing misgivings about any chances of going back home to Africa free some day. I am postulating, the white people must have picked up that phrase of greeting each other between two Akans and corrupted it to read the Jamaica people. Just my hunch.

@@philtymcnasty9994 The name Jamaica has been used long before Africans were brought there . Akans were not the slave masters .

You’re lying! Lmfao!

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Krioro he speak not kromanti

The ruling class!!!😡

Vuu

Oh love we know about it, ass there are spiritual awakened Jamaicans in Jamaica.

True. I'm also from Ghana. And I understand everything he said. He calls the trumpet "Abeng" and we also call it the same. And they drum the same way. And also put on what we call "Batakari" at the end of this video. So fellow Jamaicans you are always welcome back to Ghana wTrue. I'm also from Ghana. And I understand everything he said. He calls the trumpet "Abeng" and we also call it the same. And they drum the same way. And also put on what we call "Batakari" at the end of this video. So fellow Jamaicans you are always welcome back to Ghana where you are from.

I too am a native patois speaker, never heard of kromati and did not understand the words he spoke (that were not patois) am amazed at the Ghanians who understands so much of it. The maroons still to this day have managed to keep themselves in (relative) isolation from the rest of the island and maintained alot of their customs and traditions. You see the great big river they had to cross to get to him? Those kind of barriers provided them (some) safety from the Europeans.

+Jessica Nwoka sounds like it comes from 'saber' which means 'to know' in Spanish, Portuguese, and Portuguese-lexifier creoles like Cape Verdean Creole

In Papua New Guinean Pidgin, it's "Yu save?" lol

+Jess Yup,there is still essence of west African culture specifically Igbo in Belize,where my family is from.We're decedents of Igbo slaves brought there by the English slave master.We say Unu,deh,pickni,and many more which is petty much similar to west African pidgin(creole) English I believe.I love it!

+iamtexas exactly I'm Cape Verdean and I was surprised, we say sabe/sabi for "to know" lol

Stanley Dougé Yes, the French were also big in bringing Israelite slaves to various different lands, slaves that they had bought from Hamitic or African and Semitic or Arab slavetraders. As you probably know already, "savoir" is a French verb meaning to know.

Do they print a book with this lanuage .

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

It's not spoken outside a town of 1000 people. And only the elderly still speak it. So much for eternal 🗿

Dana Kilgore Where? Post some information on that.

I visited the area in South Carolina here is the link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullah

No way also Ghanaian descents?

Wow!

Im Gullah and several of my ancestors had Akan names. My ancestors Cuffy, Bina, Affy, Juba, Mimba. They are spelled different because white people where writing them down.

ik ben ook half surinaams er ik dacht zelf ook is dit nou een surinaamse man?

ik ben ook half surinaams er ik dacht zelf ook is dit nou een surinaamse man?

ik ben ook half surinaams er ik dacht zelf ook is dit nou een surinaamse man?

We zijn dus allemaal kormantijns. als ghanees zijnde geboren in Elmina zie ik overeenkomsten 100%

@@hugr7179 So we are all kormantis. as a Ghanaian born in Elmina I see similarities

And "acampong" sounds like Acheampong or Akyeampong town to me. Wow!

+Eruc Darko actually, obroni, is used for "white man" or "western man(as in a white man from the west)"

+Eruc Darko You might want to add that he said "Nyame" while he was speaking kromanti and was pointing up (praying) at 3:42. Nyame means "God" in twi.

+Glover dragon Actually i had a long conversation with Ama Ataa Aidoo's daughter about this. It is USED most commonly to describe white men, but it actually does mean stranger. Obroni literally means someone from "(beyond) the corn (eburo)(fields). Since they typically planted on the outskirts of town, someone who came from behind that field is a stranger/not of the town. There is an expression "tuntum broni" which i never understood well, but really if you take into account obroni meaning stranger, it translates to someone with an exotic/unusual/atypical beauty. S

+Glover dragon "obroni" actually means stranger, or from afar, but we used it to describe white people.

Mame Efua Nyinsini also black people that are from europe or america even when their parents are ghanian. I mean if they can't speak the language anyway.

They even say "m'edaase" (thank you) clearly. And one popular word that is also clearly is "Akwaaba"

The kromanti dielect is from Fante in Ghana originally. So if you understand Fante language fluently u could see alot from that. Even though the language has been fused due to slavery. Sometimes the slaves have to formulate the language so for their masters not to get the understanding when they speak. Cause as time goes on their Slave masters are able to understand their native language. That is what brought out the American slangs, the blacks formulated that.

@@wood_creates we have Awkwaba in Cameroon too 😻😻😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️

Kromanti, Abandze, and Moree (Moore) were fishing communities on the west coast of Ghana, not far from where Cape Coast Castle located. Those three fishing villages indeed saw lot of action at the height of this infamous trade.They, as a matter of fact, lost thousands of their great men and women to the slave ships.Thence to the plantations. Of course, another popular village in Ghana, which also suffered greatly was Akropong ( meaning Big Town) in the Eastern region-which name was corrupted to Accompong back in Jamaica. I find it strange with great admiration that after all the years on an unfamiliar terrain, our gallant kinsmen still held on to culture of the Motherland til this day. My respect. Roots!

@@charlesbanson4988 wasnt accompong toen named after the guy accompong, one of the key figures in the maroons? Like how grest nanny town was named after grest nanny.

Surinam too..whe have the biggest African Heritage outside Africa

See after 6.00 minutes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html

@@cliffdewind1389 I have learnt something new, thanks for sharing it 🇯🇲

What is he saying ?

We family us jamaicans need to return home🗣🗣🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

It's really hard because they have disowned us because of the European standard. The oppression of the African descendants is still so real We one broken race all because of the love we have inside. Am Jamaican But i identify my self as a African

@@treshawnataycampbell2389 got that wrong in certain ways its not all jamaicans is not dat weh In cline its not all Ghana ian his like dat same ways there some africans from ghana nigeria dont like jamaicans we all can not be fraud sell out

@@evertonreid7408 did you try to understand what am saying I know that even nigerian don't accept us That was a general statement for the continent of Africa. We the off spring are not really liked Am 29 years old an have been educating myself deeper than the school books. Even people from Tanzania are being deported of of Nigeria. It's a love hate situation for us in Jamaica Jamaicans are not really liked around the world But we are tolerated because of our culture So this has nothing to do with sell out

Koromanti was a general name for Akan captives stationed at the European fort in Koromantse not the town inhabitants.

George Adu-Boahene lol I’m Jamaican we’ve been using “nyam” as eat, so “how yuh can nyam suh ?

AnarchyHDTV nyam means eat in fula language too. Nyam and nyami is 2 different thing which comes from the continent. Abeng is also a twi word meaning I whistle/ horn . Abeng can also be used as a musical instrument in Ghanaian culture.

@Da Boot but di man a say weeeeeeeeee from the island use nyam as eat....to show how we were out if tune with truth.

@@AnarchyAfterLyfe "nyam" in Fanti or Twi (both Ghanaian Akan dialect) also means "to grind"

Surinam Kromanti, See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html

I want to know about the Gullah people.

Jamaican patois!

I'm Ghanaian from Ghana and I can hear some twi words in what he is saying. All the libations are done in Ghana.

queendragin I thought Gullahs were more Igbo and Mende

Gullahs are 70% Igbo

Ghanees kormantijns zal ik maar zeggen. Ben zelf ghanees.

Taki taki en Creole english...

Mooi toch?

Giovanni Roberts mi sabi tu. Yu sabi onti? SURINAME

@@phynwill129 "Taki taki" means "nonsense" and I don't appreciate my language being insulted like that!!!

Maury agreed literally entire cultures are direct descendants of tribes and peoples that still Live today and I think it’s amazing

Think not that the Serpent , did no try to destroy any connection we have with Africa. As a Marron, I can prove this !

Maury all a lie bot Afrikans

Quilombo is the original African Bantu version for Colombo. Or even Colon. This is why I believe that Christopher Colombus was a mixed breed that ended up betraying. What's new? Meh!

and Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia all are the same people from the Caribbean by way of Africa!

Surinam Kromanti, See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html

aksa is only ask it doent mean "kasa" to speak

Onti means because of u

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

Suriname speak créole ( kréol) too??! Wow.. I am French carribean from Martinique or the old name Madinina , we speak créole but my countryside families up the hills, theirs is still like the elders before very hard to understand like Haïti créole sometimes 😂... we need to come together and bring back Mama Africa's children back to her soil.. how long, for how many more generations shall we suffer this separations??!!

@@maliegoodenpicrode9207 Créole comes in different forms and is spoken in different ways. It is not smart to assume that other countries don't have their own créole. The créole from guyana was called Demerara Dutch but is most likely extinct by now.

It's a shame that so much of our African culture buried I hope that mr.burnard teach his children and grandchildren

jen somers maroon just means run away slave ... its not a blood dna type sis

Keiron Guwop Did you understand the context. Pump your brakes.

Keiron Guwop that means slaves who fought for they freedom that's what it means

auria roye yes because in west Africa mothers applicate bloodline matrilinearity.Keep the culture and teach it to your children for they stay real marroons too.

as well as central america. Costa rica, panama to name a few...And oh, columbia!!!

@@janetjones4310 That's all mainland dear.

People forget we are the second biggest race in the world after Asians. The region of West Africa alone boasts 5% of the entire world's population.

Your wrong buddy it's not igbo it's una is a pidgin word from West Africa not just igbo tribe from Nija

"unu" means you/you all/you people in igbo, I know because I speak igbo fluently, do you?

Cirrus Curls very true .. maybe more than one people use the same word

every jamaican parent loves to say uno when they are telling off children. if one did it they blame all the children 'uno never wash di plates' lol translation one child never washed one plate

Keiron Guwop no dummy many igbos were transported to Jamaica this is fact. There also other Igbo words in jamacian patwah.

shouldnt the Jamaican maroons take it upon themselves to preserve the language or at least add Akan to their languages and learn that as that is the language of their ancestors anyway. I am Kojo Nsiah. From Ashanti.

That i think is a very good idea

jim norris they should put it in books because you can't even learn it anywhere on the Internet

Perhaps, it's not so much a black culture thing. The Akan language is just a means to communicate. In this particular instance, various darkskinned people who at some point in history dwelled in the continent of Africa and who aren't necessarily related to one another. For example, Ethiopians as well as the inhabitants of Somalia and Eritrea do not speak the Akan language and it's certainly not part of their culture. Let alone black culture in general. History shows that people of diverse backgrounds and cultures have always borrowed certain customs from one another. That doesn't mean the Akan language alone can be used in such a way that one can ascertain all people who speak this language are also related to one another. Having said that, various different customs of man or man-made customs, doctrines, traditions in general, do not suffice as proof to support the notion that one darkskinned person is kin to the next on the basis of them speaking the same language. Also, not all man-made customs are good for mankind.

As a Jamaican I can tell you the language will never die....I understand 90% of what he said and I was never taught that this was maroon language. I just know its Patois I enjoy speaking it especially when I am overseas and in the presence of white people and is talking to other Jamaicans .....I talk the deep patois and leave out most english as possible

Fo'Real!! My college B.A. major is Cultural Anthropology. Dat stuff turn me on !!

ohenewa danquah ,you are right and I'm from cromanti,born and raised in cromanti

It would be nice for him to visit the mother land

the people called kromanste is not because they were from there. its because thats the castle they were shipped from.

Yes,history sources say some of them are from Kromantse in Central Region of Ghana

I understand some of the Fante words. My hometown is 10km from Kromantse, Abandze, Anomabo in Central Region of 🇬🇭 Ghana. Wow!!

Exactly. Thats Twi.. Thats what I keep saying .. The language is Twi and not Kromanti.. Komanti is a Village. A tiny village and the people speak Twi .

He also said youh sabi "onti" meaning wonti die3 me ka no...

@@tralbriggs104 I dislike the modern idea of a language. Frankly the whole language slash dialect thing doesn't reflect how people communicate. Speech changes and we have to accept that speech will not fit into our neat little boxes. I think the major difference here (mind you I don't know any Twi but I really want to learn) is that his language exists in a diglossia or maybe the idea of an stellaglossia would be better where there are many forms that he can glide between and does glide between mixing elements which makes it distinct. Maybe it's just a diglossia though. Maybe he does only have two languages he moves between but I think that's a major factor. Also I think if a group of people speak a thing, whatever name they call it is it's correct name. There is no reason a thing can't have different correct names among different groups.

@@micayahritchie7158 Clearly , theres Twi in what hes saying . Twi is part of the West African pidgin English formed in Southern Nigeria that became patois also . Twi entered into pidgin when the slaves were taken to Elmina castle in Ghana before taking abroad . 80% of the english he speaks is pure southern Nigerian pidgin . The Twi words are the elements picked up from Ghanaians since the slave port was in Ghana .

@@tralbriggs104 I'm not certain that's the case. I'm not saying no, but they could be independently convergent. My only point is that forms of language vary and that it might not be exactly appropriate to want to classify them as the same thing.

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

all Jamaicans should learn Akan language. We are Africans.

I'm 100% Marron from Suriname, they are 6 tribes here with languages and way of doing things. I do my best to understand them all. 2 of them sound more like Angolan languages. Even the villages that they founded in 1700s has link with Angola. Such Lombe. Some Villages has West African names such as Dahomey. The 1st peace treaty were sign in 1760.

***** I have a Ghanaian girl who is teaching me twi

J.A BWOY That's exciting. Soon I want to learn Fongbe

my mom did a dna test and found that she is mostly Beninese, which is weird because shes my Jamaican parent. I expected those result from my Haitian dad

Wow! Are these people the Bamoun? I'm Jamaican.

Soraya Very true. This is why the man in the video mentioned Kongo. Back then, on old maps, I saw Kong in the area by Ghana and Nigeria. There is no way we can be 1 tribe. Impossible due to the nature and length of the slave trade and our mingling. Its just that the Akans dominated the island first and mostly. I believe there were Africans in the West BEFORE slavery. I believe the inhabitants were a mixture of Africans and those in the Asian side. I saw old pics and some of these people look exactly like those in Austronesia.

Soraya wait.....Ashan is in scriptures. Let's not even touch on their names both surname and first name. Then we are also Ga-Adengbe or Ga Adangbe. Even the name Ayin is in scriptures. Then you have the Danhomey.....we can go on. Another thing, Africa is the people in scriptures. But well we don't research. Instead we listen to what bitter people have to say. But old books and maps will show you that All of Africa had or still have bible names. Just take note that Language evolves and Europeans had different languages and their own version of translation. Canan can be Cana, Cano, Kano, Kanem. There was a long standing empire in the Saharas called "Kanem" then "Kanem-Bornou". So all this we need to really prayerfully research. Even the Israelites took over most of Egypt according to scriptures. But they won't speak on this. This is why Hezekiah had an Egyptian symbol. It's because they took over Egypt and made the rest tributaries. Rich history. The people are infused as per all the intermarrying. Mozabites are Berbers, Mauri, Amazigh. But also have Yakub DNA. Madagascar was called Zaffe Zaffe Ibrahim......children of Ibrahim or birth of. That's just a tiny bit.

Soraya my dear, in the Alan district it is called "Juaben". There is another place Danso. Call me what you want because you don't know it. But before you draw to your conclusion, to debunk me, you would have wisely researched. I am Jamaican and lived amongst Africans. I am a researcher and I am very much familiar with their culture and SCRIPTURES. So all your name calling shows little value of you. You are better than that girl. I just know what I'm talking about. I love history and scriptures. God didn't have all those events happen and just didn't know of the great green fertile vast motherland which had many names. Mount Kenya was formerly called SIONE. But means now resting place of God. In Niger, the "Agadez" (Agag) people dwell there with towns called "Azelik" (Amelek or Bezelik) and Temian (Teman) by the old Danhomey kingdom. All these places are in scriptures. If Niger river was once Ghion river, then doesn't that mean that Africa is more than what some are deceived to believe? Hmmm., But lots of these groups would say different from your opinion because their words, customs, and lands are so much similar to the scripts. So these people have shared with me. Ashan or even Jakan is all over scriptures. Undeniably so. Good nite. Be positive. Akans called Saturday Memeneda. Me means "I", Ne means "Am", Da means "Day". Thus Memeneda wits "I, I am day".

Soraya And inna mi patwa....mi nuh really watch dem tings too tough becaw all mi now seh a God mi serve. Mi nuh waaa nuh mokko inna mi eye ar mi heart. Thank you😎

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds liker our music

I was born in Jamaica and didn't understand a thing🤷🏾‍♀️

Good question.

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

Suriname also has ties to Ghana just like Jamaica. There is documentary on RU-vid called "Suriname meets Ghana". The Dutch were in ghana for a long time before the British took over. So yeah ghana do have connection Suriname

You are on point Arawak Tiano they originally migrated outta Venezuela

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Vivian Crawford born in Moore Town Beautiful memories- Mr.Bernard from Comfort Castle,Swinging bridge at Rat Bat Hole, the Rio Grande etc.

I'm just coming across this video. A lot of it seems to be patois but other parts were Kromanti. I'm Jamaican. Could barely pick up on the kromanti myself.

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

Soraya Bella Morena fanti and Ashanti people are tribes which cone under the umbrella of Akan. Twi dialects and Fante dialects are similar tbf

Took a sip of that white lightning! Respect and props.

That is Fanti Language they call Kromanti ( Kromantsi). The town is still vibrant as i write. A fishing town and that area is where the Maroons originated from. Till today, the Fantis are the major propenents of PAN-AFRICANISM in Ghana, USA, Canada, Europe, England. Also, the Struggle for Ghana's independence started with Fantis who occupy mostly the coastal belt of Ghana from west of Accra, the capital, to Western region and Ivory Coast. They are among the most forward-thinking, Race - conscious as opposed to tribalist, selfless and Patriotic people you can find anywhere on the face of the earth. Even till today, the young PAN-AFRICANISTS in most Schools and Colleges in the Diaspora hailing from Africa are likely Fantis or studied under Fanti Scholars. People should do in depth research for confirmation. I did research over 15 years ago in the US, England, Germany,Canada,Netherlands and 7 years ago in China. There's something about Fantis and the UNIVERSAL BLACK struggle that still baffles me. Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Malcolm X ( Little's) father and most of the early members of UNIA in Jamaica, USA and UK were mostly the children of Kromanti Maroons as my research proved.

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

kolor brown .

The missionary came about 1937 and told the older Maroon, my grand father to ''give up his African ways.'' So as soon as he did his wife, my grand mother died in ''child's birth.'' then came the darkness. One very evil woman say ''she is going to destroy the Maroon tradition, by evil or Devilism .How would sister Nanny feel about the situation ?

thats crazy, the Jamaicans in America are taught to learn patois fluently by their elders

My parents use tell my siblings and I, to "speak properly " lol. How messed up! One of the consequences of slavery. Language, is language, there is no proper language, persay.

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html

is there another name for this dialect

@@madamesublime1961 Hmmm yes Patois/patwah or creole

Erskine Sam yes Coromantin was the name of an ancient slave fort in ghana called now Fort Amsterdam.

Surinam Kromanti, See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html

It is said that "Jamaica" comes from the Taino word "xaymaca" which means "land of wood & water". Xaymaca is pronounced "zah-muck-yuh" but I guess either the Spanish or the British messed up the pronunciation which is how we got Jamaica. Your theory is interesting though and could possibly be true as well.

Sounds logical ,i am jamaican and i was taught in school that before JAMAICA it was XAIMACA.

Hey! Thank you for this.

@@eyelandgal ..but those are not the words for water nor land in Taino language.. So I would say the original post is more on point

Interesting theory, could be true, who knows 👀

Surinam Kromanti. See after 6.00 minutes how a man from Ghana communicates with a man from Surinam. Surinam has the biggest African heritage outside of Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv_T30rqo0Y.html When he sings it sounds like our music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rxa0OKCD_Q.html