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Описание: Garifuna music and dance are closely related. The main traditional instruments are drums and maracas. Drums play an important role in Garifuna music Garifuna may refer to: the Garifuna people, descendants of Carib, Arawak and West African people. the Garifuna language, an Arawakan language spoken in Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize by the Garifuna people.

Garifuna (Karif) is a minority language still widely spoken in villages of Garifuna people in the western part of the northern coast of Central America. It is a member of the Arawakan languages family but an atypical one since it is spoken outside of the Arawakan language area, which is otherwise confined to the northern parts of South America, and because it contains an unusually high number of loanwords, from both Carib languages and a number of European languages because of an extremely tumultuous past involving warfare, migration and colonization. The language was once confined to the Antillean islands of St. Vincent and Dominica, but its speakers, the Garifuna people, were deported en masse by the British in 1797 to the north coast of Honduras[3] from where the language and Garifuna people have since spread along the coast south to Nicaragua and north to Guatemala and Belize. It is still widely spoken in many Garifuna villages throughout this coastal region. In recent years, a large number of Garifunas have settled in larger US cities, presumably as part of a more general pattern of northbound migration.

Parts of Garifuna vocabulary are split between men's speech and women's speech, and some concepts have two words to express them, one for women and one for men. Moreover, the terms used by men are generally loanwords from Carib while those used by women are Arawak.

The Garifuna language was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2008 along with Garifuna music and dance.

Garifuna Music & Dance

Garifuna Music & Dance
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