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Interested in Swahili to connect with heritage.

Are there any group chats for learning Swahili and practicing?

Someone posted about Creole’s usage in education. And it got me thinking of this question.

For a language that has three dialects, and the Academy selecting the Central dialect as the standard makes sense to some degree.

Even though Central Creole is the standard they really just modeled the standard based on the Port au Prince variant of said dialect. That’s like saying the Boston variant is the standard of American English. Even though the Boston variant of English is just one variant of the overarching New England Dialect. It’s seems weird that the standard doesn’t focus on the Central Dialect as a whole if the Central dialect is the standard of Creole.

Either way I always felt like there should be more than one standard because the Northern Creole is drastically different from standard Creole. While Creole is not seen as valuable as French in the education, when they do teach it to the standard, what they teach isn’t necessarily how people speak especially in the North. What would be the point of Creole education in an area, where the standard isn’t natively spoken? Like are children told they are wrong when speaking natively in a non-standard dialect?

In the US, the way they teach English in the northern states is different than the southern states. Just like it’s different in the UK when they teach it.

Idk maybe I’m on to something, maybe I’m not. But they should add another or at least make the standard overarching for the Central Dialect.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HaitianCreole/s/kxkhbrFpFv

Hello, so I’ve noticed in a couple Konpa songs that the artist contracts Ki and/or Te in a way that’s technically not correct grammar when singing, Is there a reason why they do this? Is it specific to a certain dialect in Kreyòl? Or specific to just singing? I’ve attached an example in my original post but was unable to repost it on this Reddit cause of the pictures. I attached the link.

From my understanding Te can be contracted with Pa, Ap, A, and Ale to make Pa t, t ap, ta, and t ale, respectively.

From my understanding of Ki, it can contracted with Ap, Ale, Sa, and after pronouns to make k ap, k al, sa k, and mwen k (for the pronoun example)

While Kreyòl uses the short forms for pronouns m, w, l, n, and y with a lot of flexibility. I thought the general understanding is the short forms k and t are limited in use, just like others like p, s, and g for Pa, se, and genyen, respectively.

Is there anyone who is familiar with this? I’ve already posted on Haiti and Haitian Creole but haven’t received a response.