"Çété méné endan Lalwizyann": The role of Haiti in representations of Louisiana Creole language and identity.
Misconceptions about the ethnolinguistic relationship between Haiti and Louisiana persist to the present. Central to this debate is whether Louisiana Creole (LC) is a variety of French, an independent language, or a variant of the better‐known and more widely spoken Haitian Creole (HC). In this pape...
| Published in: | Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 1 - 11 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2025
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