“Africans with little common language were forced onto plantations where French was the language of administration. Everybody is learning approximations of French and then approximations of approximations. Quite quickly, a new language is born.”

Cambridge University · Cambridge researcher uncovers lost 1935 recordings of Louisiana Creole

“Louisiana Creole was mostly the language of the working class and communities of colour. It was spoken throughout the port of New Orleans as well as in towns, farms and bayous across the plantation belt of the central Gulf coast.”

Cambridge University · Cambridge researcher uncovers lost 1935 recordings of Louisiana Creole

“Turner's lost recordings contain far more linguistic diversity than the texts we relied upon until now.”

Cambridge University · Cambridge researcher uncovers lost 1935 recordings of Louisiana Creole

“This is the language of the levees and cane fields. The language that drifted out from French Quarter saloons along with early jazz music at the turn of the last century”

Cambridge University · Cambridge researcher uncovers lost 1935 recordings of Louisiana Creole