This is a book in pdf form that I found online about the language spoken by the ancestors and ancestresses who possess during rituals in Jamaica. The language they speak is different from the "creole" that's spoken by most people in Jamaica today. It more so resembles how some of our people speak in Suriname. One thing I found interesting was that while it was noted that whenever the recently deceased possessed they'll speak just like how people speak in Jamaica today, after they've been dead about 10 years or so and they possess they'll speak in the old language. So it's just like in this world where if one goes into a country where another language is predominantly spoken the individual entering that land would be the one who adopts the language of the group already there and not vice versa.
Anyway, here ya go.
Bilby, Kenneth (1983). "How the "Older Heads" Talk: A Jamaican Maroon Spirit Possession Language and Its Relationship to the Creoles of Surname and Sierra Leone
(http://abibitumikasa.com/yabb/Attachments/Maroon.pdf)
This is wonderful...saved to hard drive...
Maa adwo.
See, it is for reasons like this why I should come on here more often.
MEDASE PIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR THIS REMARKABLE RESOURCE.
I shall have to forward it to some friends I know. They should love it also.
wow!
(http://abibitumikasa.com/yabb/Attachments/Maroon.pdf)[/quote]
na so my broda wetin hin talk na so man pickin dey yarn for gidi.....una dey try wellu wellu...if i lie make ifa punish me.
Greetings Everyone!
Thanks for taking the time to share this valuable resource pain. I will definitely check it out in more detail.
Peace & Blessings!