Wynnie Lamour-Quansah is a lecturer of Haitian Creole at NYU, the founder and managing director of the Haitian Creole Language Institute of New York, and the co-founder of Jaden Timoun, a Haitian Creole language immersion program for children. Wynnie talks about her own experience with growing up and speaking Haitian Creole. She discusses the origins and revolutionary history of the language, its status today in Haiti, and the relationship between language, politics, and power.
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0:00 Intro
1:01 Wynnie’s background and growing up speaking Haitian Creole
2:56 Which parts of your mind think in Haitian Creole?
5:28 Raising a bilingual baby
9:05 Language terminology: Haitian Creole vs Kreyòl vs other names
14:10 What is a creole language?
17:58 Haitian Creole and the Haitian Revolution
21:08 “Kreyòl spoken, Kreyòl understood”
21:51 Blackness inscribed in the language
24:13 Status of Haitian Creole in Haiti in education policy
35:41 Entering Haitian culture through studying Haitian Creole
38:32 Encouragement to language learners to use the language
42:08 The portrayal of Haitians in the 2024 US presidential election
51:04 Language and Power: Jaden Timoun and the Haitian Creole Language Institute of New York
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