Creole a vibrant language

[Ronald Kephart]

At 9:30 AM -0400 4/29/06, Harold F. Schiffman wrote:

>Haitian Creole is a strong and vibrant language. It is no more a 
>degraded version of French than French is a degraded version of 
>Latin.
>
>LYNN BERK, professor emeritus of linguistics, Florida International 
>University, Miami

I like that analogy. And I think I'm correct that varieties of 
French-lexicon Creole constitute the 2nd most widely spoken first 
language in the West Indies, after only Spanish.

Ron
(About to head to Carriacou, Grenada, to continue documenting the 
unfortunately less-than-vibrant French Creole spoken there by a 
dwindling number of elderly folks.)

-- 
Ronald Kephart
Associate Professor
Sociology & Anthropology
University of North Florida
http://www.unf.edu/~rkephart