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**~ Until recently, Kouri-Vini was disparaged as an inferior language spoken by the uneducated. "Most of society's opinions about languages and language varieties are actually opinions about the people who speak them," said Marguerite Justus, a linguist and Community Development Specialist at CODOFIL (Council for the Development of French in Louisiana). "If the people who speak a certain language or dialect are perceived as low status, then we are inclined to perceive their way of speaking as low status."

Since Kouri-Vini was traditionally passed down orally, there are challenges to writing the language. There wasn't a comprehensive approach until the Guide to Louisiana Creole #Orthography was published online in 2016.

'The self-proclaimed language activist Taalib Auguste wrote a #book in Kouri-Vini called Koushma (Nightmare), inspired by the story of an enslaved man he heard from his grandparents.'

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230228-kouri-vini-the-return-of-the-us-lost-language