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About Me:: Native New Yorker via "La Isla del encanto" (The enchanted Island, Puerto Rico). I am a Homo Sapien Sapien of mixed ethnicity: Canary Islander, Catalan, African and of course Taino! I am an advocate for linguistic diversity and I am of the opinion that Caribbean people should learn each others languages (whether it is a Native Caribbean language like Garifuna or any of the spoken Creoles such as French Creoles or Papiamentu). a language can help us to see the world in a new way and help us to think out of the box!!

Occupation:: Queens Library

Education:: Undergraduate at Hunter College with a Major in Hebrew language and a Minor in Spanish language

Contact Information:: dcampos1@yahoo.com

Research Interests:: A love of languages; cultures of all ancient societies including Indigenous cultures. Native languages of interest are Taino, Karifuna (Island Carib), Garifuna and Lokono. Passionate for all things Caribbean e.g. Flora, fauna; literature, Creole languages and culture!

Publications:: The Origin and Survival of the Taino Language (published on Caribbean amerindian Centrelink)

Affiliation:: A friend to all...

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At 1:33am on May 1st, 2008, Roman Guaraguaorix said…: Hello David I have arrived

At 1:11pm on April 16th, 2008, Keisha Josephs said…: I have the People's Garifuna Dictionary if that's the one you have. But there is a newer trilingual dictionary that I've borrowed from my University's library. It's called Hererun Wachuchagu (the first "u" in Wachuchagu is dotted") but I can't find it anywhere to buy. I would really like the Arawak dictionary by Damon Corrie. That reminds me I should go ask him about it. :)

At 11:37pm on April 15th, 2008, Maximilian Forte said…: Yes David, in fact from about June or so I should be in a position to really start catching up on commitments like the Taino dictionary, and I might be able to get a head start sooner than that. I keep a really detailed file of things that need to be added, updated, etc., so it is not lost. Thanks very much for your own patience with this, and especially for your own contributions.

At 8:01pm on April 15th, 2008, Keisha Josephs said…: Hahaha, glad you figured out how to write back. I don't know the exact date I'll be back in NY but I'll be back for a bit this summer.

Mabuwika, is pronounced the same as mabwika. I write it like "buwi" instead of "bwi" because I think it's just the vowel "u" being lost in fast speech. I'll have to figure that out for sure.

At 5:23pm on April 15th, 2008, Keisha Josephs said…: I opened up a new group focusing on language!

At 12:00am on April 14th, 2008, Maximilian Forte said…: David, I am very happy to see you here! I also noticed that you seem to be resistant to the aging process unlike, ahem, "some of us". Thanks very much for creating this profile, it's great to have you here, and I am happy to see that your fellow language traveler, Keisha, has already welcomed you. The network is still growing, and I think it could have some great potential, but it is entirely up to members to decide what to do with it. For once, I am not the gatekeeper, but more of a window dresser.

At 9:45pm on April 13th, 2008, Keisha Josephs said…: Mabuwika! Itá biyá? Aweretina! (Hey! How are you? I'm good!)
Buwitu biyani towáku sjipitópu toha. (It's good that you're on this site.)
I totally just made up the word for "website": sjipitópu: "net-place" hehehehe

At 5:25pm on April 13th, 2008, David A. Campos Reyes said…: Hello, Ida biyan-gi, Kuma u ye, sak pa se, Hola!
What's up Jorge, Max, Keisha, Denise and everyone on the Blog!
So, what do you guys want to talk about? lol...

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