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Orwi@programming.dev to History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Earliest spoken audio of endangered U.S. language discovered

www.cam.ac.uk

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Earliest spoken audio of endangered U.S. language discovered

www.cam.ac.uk

Orwi@programming.dev to History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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Forgotten recordings made by a pioneering Black academic allow contemporary linguists to hear for the first time how the Creole language forged in Louisiana’s slave trade was spoken by New Orleanians born deep in the 19th century.
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    Recordings like this are sometimes the only way later speakers can hear how words actually sounded, not just how they were written down. Hope the archive puts the full recording online.

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    “Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content.”

    Naw, I’m good dawg.

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      Why sell your information for but a clip when you can hear the whole damn recording!

      https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/n009wr19n

      Like my Creole grandmother used to say, kass lalwa.

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