Dans les années 70 je suis allé dans un village au nord de Trinidad Je
crois que c'est du côté de SAN FERNANDO où il y avait des martiniquais très agés qui parlaient notre créole....

Dans les années 70 je suis allé dans un village au nord de Trinidad Je
crois que c'est du côté de SAN FERNANDO où il y avait des
martiniquais très agés qui parlaient notre créole mais je doute
fort que les jeunes continuent à le parler en grand nombre.Il y a des
élèves d'un collège de Trinité qui s'y est rendu cette année à
la rencontre de leurs ancètres.

It was reasoned that settlers from the more populous French islands should
be given first preference over others because they were catholic and
already had expert knowledge in planting different varieties of sugar cane.
Settlers coming from Martinique, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Saint
Vincent, Guadeloupe, Nevis, Haiti and Louisiana flooded the island by the
thousands bringing their slaves with them and setting up plantations,
soon the wild appearance of Trinidad began to change rapidly as these
French speaking people inundated the island ; they built
roads, buildings, villages and towns. They also acquired positions of
prestige in the government and took up and active role in the governance of
the colony, soon their numbers and influence surpassed that of the
original Spanish colonists and in essence %u201CLa Trinidad%u201D became
%u201CLa Trinité%u201D an unofficial colony of France. The population
of Trinidad was further increased by the importation of thousands of slaves
directly from Africa to work on the new plantations since the slaves
brought over from the French Islands were soon found to be inadequate, most
of the 22,482 slaves on the island at this time spoke only
Creole.
.......hen the British took the island in 1797, they encountered a
complex culture that existed nowhere else in the Caribbean ;
the island was a Spanish colony with French, Kwèyòl and
Spanish-speaking population, Kwèyòl became the common language of the
different communities of people who spoke different languages ; by
the British takeover of 1797 more than 80% of the island%u2019s
population spoke French or Creole. From 1797 until 1962 the British ruled
Trinidad ; they tried, through legislation to eradicate
the overwhelming Franco-Creole-Hispanic influence but were largely
unsuccessful until the early part of the 20th century ; when the use of
Kwèyòl, Spanish and French began to decline. The use of French and
Spanish in school was now illegal and the use of Creole was discouraged.
Soon Kwèyòl was superseded by English and today there remains very
few places where Kwèyòl is heard regularly. One of these villages is
Paramin which also has a strong Tradition of Spanish speaking, others
are Blanchisseuse, Morne La Coix, Toco, Avocat, Bourg Mulatress, La
Lune and Brasso Seco in these villages....