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What is Kouri-Vini?

s our community began to transform over the longue durée, but especially after World War I, new nomenclature materialized to describe our Louisiana CreoleRead More

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Filed Under: Identity, Language Tagged With: Creole, Creole French, endonyms, exonyms, French Creole, IOCP International Organisation of Creole People, Kourí-Viní, Kreol International Magazine, Louisiana, Louisiana Creole, Pan-Créolité

News Alert | Audio Conversation Course in Louisiana Creole Launched

NEWS ALERT For immediate release Louisiana Historic and Cultural Vistas www.mylhcv.com [email protected] Thursday, 5th May 2016 Audio conversation course in Louisiana Creole  launchedRead More

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Filed Under: Language, News alerts Tagged With: Conversational Louisiana Creole, Kourí-Viní, Kouri-Vini online course, Learn Louisiana Creole

Forename etymology discovery – Mélissaire and Mélius

Many of us who conduct genealogical research occasionally stumble upon a few odd forenames (given names).

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Filed Under: Descriptors, Free People of Color (FPOC), Genealogy, History, Language, Names, Slavery Tagged With: 1777 Census Attakapas, Adrien Mercier Désirée, Adrien Mercier St Martinville, Alexandre Joseph Declouet, André Mercier St Martinville, Charles Pétion Francisque, Charles Pétion Francisque Declouet, Creolization, Édouard Navarre Rochon, Félicité Francisque, Francis Declouet, Francisque Declouet, François Fondal, free people of color Louisiana, gens de couleur libres Louisiana, griffe libre, griffone, griffonne, griffonne libre, Jean Baptiste Benoît Declouet, Joseph Fondal, Kourí-Viní, Louisiana colonial census, Louisiana Creole linguistics, Louisiana Creole people, Louisiana Creoles, Louisiana linguistics, Louisiana slave emancipations, Marie Anne Masse Declouet, Marie Louise Favrot Declouet, Marie Magdeleine Declouet Rochon, Mélisœur Francisque Declouet, Mélissaire Francisque Declouet, mulâtre, mulâtresse, Nanette Masse, quarteron, quarteronne

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