Created dialect of English used by the Rastafari movement
Not to be confused with Jamaican English or Jamaican Patois.
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Iyaric, also called Dread Talk, is a language consciously created by members of the Rastafari movement. When Africans were taken into captivity as a part of the slave trade, English was imposed as a colonial language and their traditional African languages were lost. In defiance, the Rastafari movement created a modified English vocabulary and dialect, with the aim of liberating their language from its history as a tool of colonial oppression. This is accomplished by avoiding sounds and words with negative connotations, such as "back", and changing them to positive ones. Iyaric sometimes also plays a liturgical role among Rastas,[1] in addition to Amharic and Ge'ez.[2]
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Iyaric, also called Dread Talk, is a language consciously created by members of the Rastafari movement. When Africans were taken into captivity as a part...
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Cogito, ergo sum Ego eimi El Elohim God and eternity I am (biblical term) Iyaric § I words e.g. "I and I" It Is What It Is I Yam What I Yam Jehovah Names...
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one of his magical invocations of the elemental spirits. Selah is used in Iyaric Rastafarian vocabulary. It can be heard at the end of spoken-word segments...
to walk on the red carpet on the way to his limousine (hence grounation, Iyaric equivalent of foundation, "uplifted" with the sound of the word ground in...
legal for use by Rastafari. The Bobo Ashanti ("Bobo" meaning "black" in Iyaric; and "Ashanti" in reference to the Ashanti people of Ghana, whom the Bobos...
common for reggae to be sung in Jamaican Patois, Jamaican English, and Iyaric dialects. Reggae is noted for its tradition of social criticism and religion...
Quran). Tebbaqiw, Ras Feqade. Books of Meqabyan 1-3. Online Edition, in Iyaric style Selassie, Feqade. Ethiopian Books of Meqabyan 1–3, in Standard English...
tuck their locs under the cap. The Bobo Ashanti ("Bobo" meaning "black" in Iyaric; and "Ashanti" in reference to the Ashanti people of Ghana, whom the Bobos...
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