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</div><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">From: </span><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#5b1094">Pat Barrett</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net">pbarrett@cox.net</a></span></span><br style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">
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Subject: </span><span class="gI">LL-L "Language varieties" 2011.07.08 (04) [EN]</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"></span><br><div><font size="2">As I recall, these maroon (escaped slaves)
communities were peopled principally by Ashanti people of the Akan culture group
in today's Ghana. Their language was Twi (I ran into a couple of Twi speakers at
the gym a few weeks ago). </font></div>
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<div><font size="2">In order to check this before sending it, I googled
Bush Negroes and found nothing about the origin of these people other than "West
Africa". The Akan culture is distinctive and Akan music can be easily
distinguished from other West African traditions. The reason I'm saying all this
is to indicate the failure of "the google" to give us essentials. It's as if
Afrikaans speakers were to be described with no reference to their Dutch
origins. </font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Just to get a taste of how disjointed all this
"information" is, note the various origins given for the word
"maroon".</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Thanks for introducing us to these wonderful
clips.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">I'll pass them on to the Ashanti boys at the gym;
they will be amazed. Decades ago I did the same for a Yoruba friend who could
not believe the Cuban recordings in his language e.g. Babalu Aye. </font></div>
<div><font size="2">Pat Barrett <a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net" target="_blank">pbarrett@cox.net</a><font color="#888888"><br><a href="http://ideas.lang-learn.us/barrett.php" target="_blank">http://ideas.lang-learn.us/barrett.php</a><br>
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