· January, 2013

Stories about St. Vincent & the Grenadines from January, 2013

Belize, St. Vincent: Garifuna Culture

  16 January 2013

…the Garifuna language, which integrates Arawak and Carib, and which was declared a ‘masterpiece of the oral intangible heritage of humanity’ by UNESCO in 2001, is severely threatened. It possesses forms and structures used exclusively by males, and is the only survivor of the island languages descended from Arawakan. In...