3. Garifuna in Belize and Honduras

Escure, Geneviève

doi:10.1075/cll.27.04esc

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“…A notable case of this is the borrowing of Chukchi loans of this sort into certain forms of Siberian Yupik Eskimo (Comrie 1981, de Reuse 1994. Another case of borrowing involves Spanish loans of a similar structural nature into Mayan languages and other languages of Mesoamerica (Brody 1987, Stolz & Stolz 2001, and we note the incorporation of Spanish de 'of' into various contexts (including occasional use as a possessive marker) in some varieties of modern Nahuatl which also borrowed much basic vocabulary from Spanish (Hill & Hill 1981, 2004. Further examples of borrowed elements which on the balance of crosslinguistic evidence would presumably replace earlier structural subsystems are the borrowed pronouns in Pirahã which originate in the unrelated language Tupinambá, a Tupi-Guarani language (Thomason & Everett 2005) and the personal pronouns of Alsea, which bear a striking and surprising resemblance to those of Interior Salishan languages (Kinkade 2005).…”

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Contact-Induced Change and the Openness of 'Closed' Morphological Systems: Some Cases from Native America

Grant¹

2008

J Lang Contact

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This paper examines the effects of contact-induced language change on the nominal and verbal inflectional morphology of several Native American languages, most of which have also replaced large amounts of their basic vocabulary with loans from other language. It shows that although there are few if any limitations on the kinds of concepts which may be expressed by borrowed items, borrowing as a source of morphological renewal is an infrequently-employed process in these languages, and even those languages which have borrowed heavily have not always borrowed the same types of morphemes from other languages. Information derived from diachronic inspection of inflectional morphology remains the most reliable means of classifying languages genealogically with accuracy.

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Contact-Induced Change and the Openness of 'Closed' Morphological Systems: Some Cases from Native America

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2008

J Lang Contact

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“…Port Honduras Marine Reserve, the Snake Cayes and the Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve are all accessible from Punta Gorda. The town is primarily home to Maya and Garifuna People [61], with an increasing Chinese community and recently a growing expatriate community from the USA, Canada and Europe. Garifuna People have their own religious beliefs and speak the Garifuna language.…”

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“…Placencia has seen tourism rapidly increase since the 1980s [62]) and the village continues to change with expatriate numbers generally increasing. Placencia is predominantly a Creole village [59,61], another major culture in Belize with different food, habits and customs than Garifuna People, with an increasing Chinese and expatriate community.…”

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Social Factors Affecting Sustainable Shark Conservation and Management in Belize

Sabbagh

Hickey

2019

Sustainability

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Predatory sharks contribute to healthy coral reef ecosystems; however their populations are declining. This paper explores some of the important social factors affecting shark conservation outcomes in Belize through a qualitative analysis of the shark-related activities, attitudes and perceptions among local stakeholders and their perceived relative ability to influence shark conservation policies. Drawing on key informant interviews and focus groups, respondents suggested that considerable demand for shark meat originates from markets in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, especially during Lent, driving larger-scale shark fishing operations within Belize waters. Different stakeholders reported a wide range of uses for shark products, and reported diverging perceptions concerning the status and value of shark populations in Belize, with conflicting attitudes towards their conservation. Such conflicting perceptions among stakeholders can pose a serious challenge to sustainable shark conservation and management, and ultimately undermine collaborative governance objectives. Belize shark conservation issues likely need to be addressed at the scale of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, perhaps by taking a transboundary approach that better accounts for the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders from Belize, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.

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“…Furthermore, they identified variable timing of admixture events during and after the TAST, sometimes consistent with major socio-historical events such as the expansion of the plantation economic system or the abolition of slavery (11, 12). From a cultural perspective, linguists have shown that novel contact-languages, such as creole languages (13, 14), emerged from recurring interactions between socio-economically dominant Europeans with Africans and Americans. Furthermore, they identified the languages of origin of numerous linguistic traits in several creole languages (15–17), and emphasized the complex histories of contacts that shaped language diversity on both sides of the Atlantic.…”

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A genetic and linguistic analysis of the admixture histories of the islands of Cabo Verde

Laurent

Szpiech

Costa

et al. 2022

Preprint

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From the 15th to the 19th century, the Trans-Atlantic Slave-Trade influenced the genetic and cultural diversity of numerous populations. We explore genomic and linguistic data from the nine islands of Cabo Verde, the earliest European colony of the era in Africa, a major Slave-Trade platform between the 16th and 19th centuries, and a previously uninhabited location ideal for investigating early admixture events between Europeans and Africans. We find that genetic admixture in Cabo Verde occurred primarily between Iberian and Senegambian populations, although forced and voluntary migrations to the archipelago involved numerous other populations. Inter-individual genetic and linguistic variation recapitulate geographic distribution of individuals' birth-places across Cabo Verdean islands, suggesting that Kriolu language variants have developed together with genetic divergences. Furthermore, we find that admixture occurred both early in each island, long before the 18th-century massive TAST deportations triggered by the plantation economy, and after this era. Our results illustrate how shifting socio-cultural relationships between enslaved and non-enslaved communities shaped enslaved-African descendants' descent on both sides of the Atlantic.

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3. Garifuna in Belize and Honduras

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Contact-Induced Change and the Openness of 'Closed' Morphological Systems: Some Cases from Native America

Contact-Induced Change and the Openness of 'Closed' Morphological Systems: Some Cases from Native America

Social Factors Affecting Sustainable Shark Conservation and Management in Belize

A genetic and linguistic analysis of the admixture histories of the islands of Cabo Verde

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