Can creoles and Cajuns communicate with each other in their own French dialect? Can the creole Kouri vini speaker communicate with the Cajun ( Louisiana French ) speaker?
Yes I was raised around both,my grandparents spoke more creole but I learned more cajun french. Louisiana and its areas are so unique! Over in Breaux Bridge,St.Martinville and Cecilia there's alot of creole speakers to wheres in Sunset,Grand Coteau and alot of Lafayette there's alot of Cajun speakers. In all actuality these two blend along with the metropolitan French to make what we call Louisiana French. Cajun french could easily be self taught compared to creole because with creole there isn't to many documentations of it. It's a passed on language with a lot of Spanish words implimented in it as well. I learned a good bit of creole words because I'm a man of color although that isn't always the case.Most colored people in Louisiana speak or family was mostly associated with creole which was Louisiana's first French. There are whites that speak it as well. In all they are kind of different but compatible lol Louisiana is the only place in the world to me that brings blacks and whites together with culture and that is beautiful!
Mine too, and I grew up in Los Angeles. I'm "black" creole and my first wife was "white" cajun, but our families were " family". My cajun wife was more like me than the "black" gals in that I grew up around. Her and I are still friends and her family is still family. She moved back to her home Parish. Life is interesting and wonderful.
@@surviveunplugged Some times it's like in Louisiana and some times not. Of course Black girls in L.A (who don't have Louisiana background) may be different from you
Creole in Louisiana doesn’t mean mulatto or black, creole is neutral of race. It just means someone from colonial Louisiana descent regardless of race and that population only used it to mean native born to Louisiana, regardless of race. This is its historic meaning hundreds of years in the making. So that includes the whites, the mixed race and the blacks. Cajuns are white creoles that switched from being called creole to being called cajun in the 1960’s. South Louisiana’s culture and people are creole, all this cajun this and cajun that is recent and not historic. Cajuns contributed to south Louisiana’s culture (like all the other ethnicities that settled south Louisiana) and didn’t invent it, only contributed to it.
@@IslenoGutierrez Just the language I do understand that there is a difference in kouri vini ( Louisiana creole language ) and Cajun ( Acadian Louisiana French 🇫🇷 ). Can a creole speaking Kouri vini understand cajun French and communicate speaking their own language?
@@darioussmith3450 There is no such thing as Cajun French. The French dialect of the Acadians is long extinct. The French language in Louisiana that Cajuns and other French speakers in Louisiana speak is a mixture of 4 different dialects of French that found its way to Louisiana and took root (France, Québec, Acadie, St. Domingue) and the dialect also has various borrowed words from Spanish, English and Native American languages. So the name of the Louisiana dialect of French is called Louisiana French. The Louisiana Creole dialect is called Kouri-Vini. These are two different languages, Louisiana French is the French language and kouri-vini is a hybrid language that is predominantly French. Speakers in Louisiana of both dialects can usually understand each other and especially since the French speakers are familiar with the hybrid changes that make kouri-vini, but a French speaker from outside Louisiana may not understand all of the kouri-vini and may only get parts of it. Also, all Louisiana peoples that are native born to Louisiana and it’s local culture that is rooted in its French and Spanish colonial period are called creoles. So there are different kinds of creoles such as the different white creoles like French Creoles (Louisiana whites of French descent), Acadian Creoles (these are the Cajuns, Louisiana whites of Acadian descent), Spanish Creoles (Louisiana whites of Spanish descent) and German Creoles (Louisiana whites of German descent) as well as the non-white creole types like Creoles of Color (mulattoes), Métis Creoles (mestizos) and Afro Creoles (Louisiana blacks of African descent). Most of these groups have people among them that can speak Louisiana French (it used to be the language of all of Louisiana before English) and this even includes certain Native American tribes that can speak French like the Houma Nation. Those who can speak Kouri-Vini are usually found among some Creoles of Color (mulattoes) and Afro-Creoles (black Creoles) but some whites can also speak it (especially whites that have long standing, multigenerational interactions with those groups and used this dialect as a means of communication). Other Creoles of Color, Afro Creoles can speak Louisiana French like the many different white Creoles.
@@IslenoGutierrez Ok cool. Hey, im a Floridian, and I have been to Louisiana once. I have not one time brought up race or mixture. I was talking about the language difference. I know nothing about it, so im just learning, and it does not affect me one way or the other. We come here to learn, so please do not come off as we should already know this stuff. Us native Floridians have Spanish that we deal with and learn and speak as a second language. The only people that really speak a French are the Haitians here that went to school in Haiti 🇭🇹 that learned French because it is taught in school there. They are not the majority so we don’t use it much. Spanish would be more beneficial in Florida than French.
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This is beautiful! I hope this culture can spread all over America.
Boy them Louisiana French Cajuns be rockin' their socks off when they groovin' to Zydeko......
That's my peoples!
Vive la Cajun et Créole
Oui c'est un beau langue et culture⚜💙
The true understanding of arcadia, I wish the rest of the world would get on board
My great grandfather was Aldus Roger!!!
Can creoles and Cajuns communicate with each other in their own French dialect? Can the creole Kouri vini speaker communicate with the Cajun ( Louisiana French ) speaker?
Yes I was raised around both,my grandparents spoke more creole but I learned more cajun french. Louisiana and its areas are so unique! Over in Breaux Bridge,St.Martinville and Cecilia there's alot of creole speakers to wheres in Sunset,Grand Coteau and alot of Lafayette there's alot of Cajun speakers. In all actuality these two blend along with the metropolitan French to make what we call Louisiana French. Cajun french could easily be self taught compared to creole because with creole there isn't to many documentations of it. It's a passed on language with a lot of Spanish words implimented in it as well. I learned a good bit of creole words because I'm a man of color although that isn't always the case.Most colored people in Louisiana speak or family was mostly associated with creole which was Louisiana's first French. There are whites that speak it as well. In all they are kind of different but compatible lol Louisiana is the only place in the world to me that brings blacks and whites together with culture and that is beautiful!
@@bwilldagreat1211
Definitely not the only place in the world and it's only select places in Louisiana
C'est Louisienne Mon amis . Je vous donne Merci Mo voisinnes
One of the funniest things I’ve heard was two gay guys passionately arguing in Cajun French. Priceless!
Gay Cajuns??😂😂
Where's the complete documentary?
Love me some Horas Trehan
Where can we watch?
Bonjour Garçon
Cajun and Creole is the same thing in my family.
Mine too, and I grew up in Los Angeles. I'm "black" creole and my first wife was "white" cajun, but our families were " family". My cajun wife was more like me than the "black" gals in that I grew up around. Her and I are still friends and her family is still family. She moved back to her home Parish. Life is interesting and wonderful.
@@surviveunplugged so if you speak creole and your wife speaks Cajun can y’all understand each other?
@@darioussmith3450 Actually we did. Sort of an unspoken language. AND. we both enjoy a good Zydeco party. Go figure.
@@surviveunplugged
Some times it's like in Louisiana and some times not.
Of course Black girls in L.A (who don't have Louisiana background) may be different from you
@LilMan 3x
You mean Creole. There was pretty much no Cajun identity during slavery times
Where can you get the DVD???
Maybe it just me but I think it sounds hot 🥰🥰🥰
Oh yes 😍
Creole in Louisiana doesn’t mean mulatto or black, creole is neutral of race. It just means someone from colonial Louisiana descent regardless of race and that population only used it to mean native born to Louisiana, regardless of race. This is its historic meaning hundreds of years in the making. So that includes the whites, the mixed race and the blacks. Cajuns are white creoles that switched from being called creole to being called cajun in the 1960’s. South Louisiana’s culture and people are creole, all this cajun this and cajun that is recent and not historic. Cajuns contributed to south Louisiana’s culture (like all the other ethnicities that settled south Louisiana) and didn’t invent it, only contributed to it.
So can creoles and Cajuns understand each other in their own language?
@@darioussmith3450 Cajuns are creoles… so what exactly do you mean?
@@IslenoGutierrez Just the language I do understand that there is a difference in kouri vini ( Louisiana creole language ) and Cajun ( Acadian Louisiana French 🇫🇷 ). Can a creole speaking Kouri vini understand cajun French and communicate speaking their own language?
@@darioussmith3450 There is no such thing as Cajun French. The French dialect of the Acadians is long extinct. The French language in Louisiana that Cajuns and other French speakers in Louisiana speak is a mixture of 4 different dialects of French that found its way to Louisiana and took root (France, Québec, Acadie, St. Domingue) and the dialect also has various borrowed words from Spanish, English and Native American languages. So the name of the Louisiana dialect of French is called Louisiana French. The Louisiana Creole dialect is called Kouri-Vini. These are two different languages, Louisiana French is the French language and kouri-vini is a hybrid language that is predominantly French. Speakers in Louisiana of both dialects can usually understand each other and especially since the French speakers are familiar with the hybrid changes that make kouri-vini, but a French speaker from outside Louisiana may not understand all of the kouri-vini and may only get parts of it.
Also, all Louisiana peoples that are native born to Louisiana and it’s local culture that is rooted in its French and Spanish colonial period are called creoles. So there are different kinds of creoles such as the different white creoles like French Creoles (Louisiana whites of French descent), Acadian Creoles (these are the Cajuns, Louisiana whites of Acadian descent), Spanish Creoles (Louisiana whites of Spanish descent) and German Creoles (Louisiana whites of German descent) as well as the non-white creole types like Creoles of Color (mulattoes), Métis Creoles (mestizos) and Afro Creoles (Louisiana blacks of African descent). Most of these groups have people among them that can speak Louisiana French (it used to be the language of all of Louisiana before English) and this even includes certain Native American tribes that can speak French like the Houma Nation. Those who can speak Kouri-Vini are usually found among some Creoles of Color (mulattoes) and Afro-Creoles (black Creoles) but some whites can also speak it (especially whites that have long standing, multigenerational interactions with those groups and used this dialect as a means of communication). Other Creoles of Color, Afro Creoles can speak Louisiana French like the many different white Creoles.
@@IslenoGutierrez Ok cool. Hey, im a Floridian, and I have been to Louisiana once. I have not one time brought up race or mixture. I was talking about the language difference. I know nothing about it, so im just learning, and it does not affect me one way or the other. We come here to learn, so please do not come off as we should already know this stuff. Us native Floridians have Spanish that we deal with and learn and speak as a second language. The only people that really speak a French are the Haitians here that went to school in Haiti 🇭🇹 that learned French because it is taught in school there. They are not the majority so we don’t use it much. Spanish would be more beneficial in Florida than French.
This gay
Just cause it turns u on don't make it gay...