The Importance of Language in the West Indies

I studied Latin my father loved Latin so the European type languages and Creole were very accessible to me I could understand them that's my first language was Creole Hindi. bhajpuri because the old ones would speak to older people who came in in this dialect Spanish was very close you could see Venezuela from some parts of Trinidad. My great grandfather said to me okay you can learn it they were now good if you want learn it on your own I'm going to teach you something else, he taught me an almost extinct script for Caeti which is for very little seen in India. As a child I remember the moment standing in our backyard when I first pronounced her and I knew

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