Tanks. I should have watched this video before I went. I can understand most of the conversation speaking with one person when when two of you are speaking to each other it's a whole other language 😂
That’s usually how my family and friends greet each other in Canada and none of us have any bajan ancestry 🤔 except for the you’re welcome part, we usually just say “ya” or “no problem”
@@tralbriggs104there are white people in Barbados too and English is a white language not a black language so what kind of sense does your statement make
When you speak standard English, I swear there are times when you sound like you are Scottish. Not like someone speaking in Scots dialect, but when Scottish people speak standard English. I am Scottish, and live in Scotland. It's fascinating! Lang may yer lum reek!
Black English is to American English as Bajan is to British English. I don't think it's a separate language, it's just a patois, a slang way of saying English.
@@flintnfam4523 Black English is Ebonics - look up that word, although I disagree that its a separate language. Instead, black English was created out of ignorance of standard English grammar, just like "Bajan". American English is the English language as Americans speak it, rather than British. There are very specific rules of grammar, that are ignored by those who speak "Bajan" and "Black English."
Don't forget: limit your pronouns and verb endings! As in "she disrespect she husband" (don't use "her"). Don't know if that's universal bajan but my best friends husband is from Barbados and he speaks that way all. The time. When she first married him it took me months of asking her to translate for me before I could make out what he's saying. Now I can mostly follow, even when he's ranting and mad. It's definitely its own language!
I'm from Barbados and I agree ,I'd say the base of The dialects are the same but not used in same way but Barbados does have it own language just like every other island
Each Caribbean language though having similarities are actually distinct & unique in their own right. You say "simply dialect" but each island have different dialects of their own, Virgin Islands alone have 8 different dialects, none matching any other island exactly. People in the Caribbean are not understood by many standard English speakers, they speak different languages that have many non-English elements. Creoles are literally different languages. A lot of you simply don’t understand basic linguistics & have no idea about the criteria of a dialect or language, which are interchangeable words anyway. Hope you’re more educated now
@@NostraNoSavin Standard English usually don't understand Caribbean people because of accent and some times the speed they speak at not because of being a different language or grammar
It's a language literally you can Google and you can see it say it's a language people just confused it with English because it's a English based creole HEAVILY influenced by English it's just a simple misconception
The creole is both a mixture of broken English with African words with British words thats why it can sound so English one moment and complete foreign another moment
Oh god, it's a "creole dialect" and therefore "broken English"? 🙄 Lol, you've clearly learned some big words; it's too bad that you don't actually understand what they mean. Creoles are not broken versions of other people's languages, and neither are dialects for that matter.
My Ancestors on my paternal grandmother side originated from Barbados and 🇹🇹 Trinidad!! That’s why I am here. Fell in love with the culture!
I did a DNA test and found out my ancestors where from Barbados. That's why I am here. Great video.
That's pretty cool.
They are telling people they are Bajan on DNA 🧬 tests ? Usually they just link you back to Africa. That is interesting.
@@alansjf33 so true, I did an Ancestry and my African ancestors were dropped off in Barbados, Antigua and Puerto Rico.
How did you do it?
Go to barbados 🇧🇧 i am sure you would enjoy it as well
I love being Bajan Nuh matter where I go I’ll let dem know I’ll rep de Bajan flag yuh understand
Fa sure. Yuh dun kno!
Except when it's the Ukrainian flag bro, what's good.
Thanks for improving my education. I really enjoyed that. great presentation!
You had us laughing my man! Can’t wait to practice my Bajan.
Tanks. I should have watched this video before I went. I can understand most of the conversation speaking with one person when when two of you are speaking to each other it's a whole other language 😂
That’s usually how my family and friends greet each other in Canada and none of us have any bajan ancestry 🤔 except for the you’re welcome part, we usually just say “ya” or “no problem”
Are you Punjabi Indians ?
Best bajan accent video by far and the repetition is real 😂😂
The usage and rhythm of the 'yahs' and 'nahs' is exactly the same in Cork, Ireland. Same with 'tanks' 😱😁
Big man. On'stan, Half de people ain't unstan a word you said all video!!! Lmao 🤣
Not me here because i was around my american cousins for to long so my friends think i aint bajan
Haha. You ah Bajan Yankie!
I’m from America, from Alabama we say some slang like that
I game online with friends from Barbados… so I’m here trying to learn how to understand them better.
Mi geechee gullah we sound alike
Big right up man🇧🇧💯
A Bajan accent is pretty much the Irish Accent with a caribbean, twist. Prove me wrong.
Irish ? When they are black people ? Black people spoke Irish ?
Looks like pidgin English in West Africa
@@tralbriggs104there are white people in Barbados too and English is a white language not a black language so what kind of sense does your statement make
Omg yeah
There was a large Irish population in Barbados in the past.
Similar to the geechie Gullah language
When you speak standard English, I swear there are times when you sound like you are Scottish. Not like someone speaking in Scots dialect, but when Scottish people speak standard English. I am Scottish, and live in Scotland. It's fascinating! Lang may yer lum reek!
Funny thing is I got that remark in University, crazy!
Greetings from Panama
Hola! Gracias por ver este video! Bienvenida
Why is this so similar to our Trinidadian Dialect ?
it isn't lol
Barbados 🇧🇧 is home forever
Black English is to American English as Bajan is to British English. I don't think it's a separate language, it's just a patois, a slang way of saying English.
What is Black English?
What is American English?
@@flintnfam4523 black English is Gullah which is a language that sound similar to bajan. Oona obastaan now
I know of gullah.
@@flintnfam4523 Raspect
@@flintnfam4523 Black English is Ebonics - look up that word, although I disagree that its a separate language. Instead, black English was created out of ignorance of standard English grammar, just like "Bajan". American English is the English language as Americans speak it, rather than British. There are very specific rules of grammar, that are ignored by those who speak "Bajan" and "Black English."
Dis one hay tight!
My people are from Bajan
What does the word Bajan mean ? Sounds Indian
Its what the citizens of Barbados call themselves and also what they call their language/dialect
3:50 😂
Im British Indo-Afro Creolese 🇧🇧🇯🇲🇹🇹🇬🇾
You need to do stand up 😂
I promise y’all, I’m leaving it. My husband or the person I marry will have to be Bajan. The accent does something to my psyche that I can’t explain.
Bajan and Liberia have many similarities in speaking. This is because Liberia was founded by free slaves from America and Barbedos.
Interesting.
Don't forget: limit your pronouns and verb endings! As in "she disrespect she husband" (don't use "her"). Don't know if that's universal bajan but my best friends husband is from Barbados and he speaks that way all. The time. When she first married him it took me months of asking her to translate for me before I could make out what he's saying. Now I can mostly follow, even when he's ranting and mad. It's definitely its own language!
Appreciate this comment! Now i need to post more Bajan language vids!
BTW, that is universal Bajan.
We do that in trinidad too 😊
✝️🙏🏽💯
Part 2
Dis so funny yc
Wah happen to cheese on bread ?
That coming bud don't worry.
😂
you praising the language....i learned nothing😒 all the way in SouthAfrica
It’s kinda like how Jamaican speak
Most of these are not exclusive. It's used widely around the Caribbean. Simply dialect
I'm from Barbados and I agree ,I'd say the base of The dialects are the same but not used in same way but Barbados does have it own language just like every other island
Each Caribbean language though having similarities are actually distinct & unique in their own right. You say "simply dialect" but each island have different dialects of their own, Virgin Islands alone have 8 different dialects, none matching any other island exactly. People in the Caribbean are not understood by many standard English speakers, they speak different languages that have many non-English elements. Creoles are literally different languages. A lot of you simply don’t understand basic linguistics & have no idea about the criteria of a dialect or language, which are interchangeable words anyway. Hope you’re more educated now
@@NostraNoSavin
Standard English usually don't understand Caribbean people because of accent and some times the speed they speak at not because of being a different language or grammar
It 's a dialect
Bajan creole is literally a language, look it up
It's a English creole dialect which is not nessesarily a "language" asuch its broken English.
It's a language literally you can Google and you can see it say it's a language people just confused it with English because it's a English based creole HEAVILY influenced by English it's just a simple misconception
The creole is both a mixture of broken English with African words with British words thats why it can sound so English one moment and complete foreign another moment
Oh god, it's a "creole dialect" and therefore "broken English"? 🙄 Lol, you've clearly learned some big words; it's too bad that you don't actually understand what they mean. Creoles are not broken versions of other people's languages, and neither are dialects for that matter.