I was reading the biography of Alpha Blondie, who now some people are calling "The New Bob Marley" and it says he sings in English, French, Mandinque Dioula & Patois
Can someone tell me where I can get information about these 3 languages and if you can call them that or dialects?
I know He's from The Ivory Coast but my friends said He sang in Hebrew.
The Hebrew part sounds right since his records names such as "Shalom, Rabin, and masada"
I love his music and would like to know more about it.
Thank You
2007-04-05 10:29:56 · 5 answers · asked by tiuwiti 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Sub-saharan Africa uses many languages. Each tribe has its own dialect, which may not respect national borders drawn by Europeans. There are also "trade languages" that are used for commerce and for social exchanges between strangers, so that neither native's language is considered "superior."
Dioula is a tribal group in the Ivory Coast. Mandingue is a tribal group mainly in Senegal, but the language was used more widely when there were trade routes. Senegalese music is very popular.
Patois is a French word that means something like "slang" or "a mix of languages," so it is applied to Haitian as well as other French speakers who mix local languages in.
2007-04-05 10:56:04 · answer #1 · answered by thylawyer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well!!! A classical language, is a language with a literature that is classical— i.e., it should be ancient, it should be an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own, not as an offshoot of another tradition, and it must have a large and extremely rich body of ancient literature. How Tamil is classical? Claims regarding the "Primary Classicality of Tamil": 1. Lemurian origin 2. Phonological simplicity 3. Catholicity . 4. Tamulic substratum of the Aryan family of languages. 5. Morphological purity and primitiveness . 6. The presence of the words ‘amma’ and ‘appa’ in almost all great languages in some form or other. 7. Absence of Nominative case-termination . 8. Separability and significance of all affixes . 9. Absence of morphological gender 10. Absence of arbitrary words 11. Traceability of Tamil to its very origin. 12. Logical and natural order of words . 13. Absence of dual number . 14. Originality and natural development . 15. Highest order of the classicality . Classical Languages in India: 1. Tamil 2. Sanskrit 3. Kannada 4 . Telugu Classical Languages in the world (other than Indian): 1. Sumerian 2. Egyptian 3. Babylonian 4. Hebrew 5. Chinese 6. Greek 7. Latin * Though the first three languages exitsed along with all 7, only the latter 4 along with Tamil and Sanskrit are called as Worlds Classical languages
2016-03-31 23:37:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the patois is a composite language of french english and some other imported words.
Alpha Blondy does sing in hebrew occasionally as their rastafarian lyrics talk about herusalem and israel in very loving terms. it was very disconcerting...there is was all those years ago, drinking beer on the beach of jamaica in my kipah, listening to reggae and hearing hebrew...i went out and bought some alpha blondy tapes!
2007-04-05 10:34:09 · answer #3 · answered by rosends 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
La langue mandinque et ses dialectes (malinka, bambara, dioula)
They are french dialects
2007-04-05 10:34:46 · answer #4 · answered by nymphika 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Patois" is interchangeable with "dialect" as there are patois in several languages.
2007-04-05 10:34:45 · answer #5 · answered by justbeingher 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋