Cross-linguistic influence in language creation: Assessing the role of the Gbe languages in the formation of the Creoles of Suriname

Essegbey, James; Migge, Bettina; Winford, Donald

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.02.005

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“…The results were also consistent with linguistic studies based on hundreds of African words and linguistic characteristics that are commonly used by Noir Marron communities today (Essegbey et al, 2013a;Essegbey et al, 2013b;Muysken and Smith 2014). These studies revealed functional similarities with the sub-family of the Gbe linguistic family, which is spoken today by African populations from Benin (such as Fon).…”

Section: Genetic Heritage Of African-descendants In South Americasupporting

confidence: 88%

Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity

Fortes-Lima¹,

Mtetwa²,

Schlebusch³

2022

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Section: Genetic Heritage Of African-descendants In South Americasupporting

confidence: 88%

Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity

Fortes-Lima¹,

Mtetwa²,

Schlebusch³

2022

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“…In the ancestry-specific principal component analysis (AS-PCA), the results evidence strong genetic similarities between African haplotypes of Noir Marron individuals and populations in present-day Benin (Figure 10.4). The results were also consistent with linguistic studies based on hundreds of African words and linguistic characteristics that are commonly used by Noir Marron communities today (Essegbey et al, 2013a;Essegbey et al, 2013b;Muysken and Smith 2014). These studies revealed functional similarities with the sub-family of the Gbe linguistic family, which is spoken today by African populations from Benin (such as Fon).…”

Section: Genetic Heritage Of African-descendants In South Americasupporting

confidence: 88%

Disentangling the Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in African Diaspora Populations from a Genomic Perspective

Fortes-Lima

2021

Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity

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“…However, Fortes-Lima et al (27) recently investigated four Noir Marron communities from French Guyana and Surinam. The results highlighted high levels of genomic inbreeding, high (~98%) African genetic ancestry originated mainly from the Bight of Benin (Figure 3A-B), and more precisely from Gbe-speaking populations in Benin (34,35), and reduced Native American and European ancestries, altogether resulting from more than 350 years of genetic and cultural isolation in the South-American rainforest (36).This relatively simple admixture pattern, with apparently very few different African source populations, substantially differs from those observed in numerous other enslaved-African descendant populations in the Americas who could not escape bondage and often show genomic contribution from multiple African sources as well as substantial admixture with European and Native American populations (7,17,22).…”

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Anthropological genetics perspectives on the transatlantic slave trade

Fortes-Lima

Verdu

2020

Human Molecular Genetics

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During the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (TAST), around twelve million Africans were enslaved and forcibly moved from Africa to the Americas and Europe, durably influencing the genetic and cultural landscape of a large part of humanity since the 15th century. Following historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, population geneticists have, since the 1950’s mainly, extensively investigated the genetic diversity of populations on both sides of the Atlantic. These studies shed new lights into the largely unknown genetic origins of numerous enslaved-African descendant communities in the Americas, by inferring their genetic relationships with extant African, European, and Native American populations. Furthermore, exploring genome-wide data with novel statistical and bioinformatics methods, population geneticists have been increasingly able to infer the last 500 years of admixture histories of these populations. These inferences have highlighted the diversity of histories experienced by enslaved-African descendants, and the complex influences of socio-economic, political, and historical contexts on human genetic diversity patterns during and after the slave trade. Finally, the recent advances of paleogenomics unveiled crucial aspects of the life and health of the first generation of enslaved Africans in the Americas. Altogether, human population genetics approaches in the genomic and paleogenomic era need to be coupled with history, archaeology, anthropology, and demography in interdisciplinary research, to reconstruct the multifaceted and largely unknown history of the TAST and its influence on human biological and cultural diversities today. Here, we review anthropological genomics studies published over the past 15 years and focusing on the history of enslaved-African descendant populations in the Americas.

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Cross-linguistic influence in language creation: Assessing the role of the Gbe languages in the formation of the Creoles of Suriname

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity

Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity

Disentangling the Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in African Diaspora Populations from a Genomic Perspective

Anthropological genetics perspectives on the transatlantic slave trade

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