Warasa Garifuna Drum School

Tag: garifuna language

  • Garifuna Language

    The Garifuna language is primarily based on the Arawak language, but also incorporates elements of French, Spanish, English, Carib and West African languages. It is spoken by Garifuna people in Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and also those who have emigrated to the United States and other countries. Sadly there are very few, if any, speakers still…

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  • Baby Yuyu’s Atole

    Baby Yuyu’s Atole (Latun Yuyu Adulu) Below is a Garifuna story from Honduras first translated into Spanish, and now translated into English by Warasa Garifuna Drum School. The Spanish translation is from ASOCIACIÓN MISIONERA GARÍFUNA. Walagante. La Ceiba Atlántida Honduras, Editora Fernando Sabio, 2000. Pág. 31 and was found in a research thesis conducted in…

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  • Garifuna Language Resources

    We are starting to compile a list of free, online Garifuna Language Resources.  This will include song lyrics and more. Garifuna Religious Texts Throughout history, religious texts have often been the first texts to be translated into local languages.  This is true even in Garifuna it seems, as we have found The Gospel of John…

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