Harshe na al'umma

"Nation language" is the term coined by scholar and poet Kamau Brathwaite that is now commonly preferred to describe the use of non-standard English in the work of writers from the Caribbean and the African diaspora, as opposed to the traditional designation of it as "dialect", which Brathwaite considered carries pejorative connotations that are inappropriate and limiting. 

A cikin kalmomin Brathwaite, an yi la'akari da ikon bayanin kula akan harshen ƙasa da kuma misali mai mahimmanci na amfani da shi: 

Marubutan da suka fi amfani da harshen ƙasa sun haɗa da Samuel Selvon, Louise Bennett, John Figueroa, Archie Markham, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Marc Matthews, John Agard, Jean Binta Breeze, da sauransu daga ƙaramin ƙarni. Mawallafi kuma masanin Mervyn Morris ("ɗaya daga cikin malaman farko da suka goyi bayan muhimmancin harshen ƙasa wajen taimakawa wajen bayyana muhimman al'adun Jamaican a cikin aya", a cewar Ralph Thompson)  ya gano littafin V. S. Reid na 1949 New Day a matsayin aikin wallafe-wallafen farko da ya yi amfani da yaren Jamaican a matsayin harshen ba da labari.

A cikin Tarihin Muryar (1984), Brathwaite ya tattauna shahararren pentameter a cikin al'adar waka ta Turanci, yana da'awar cewa tun daga lokacin Chaucer, kuma tare da wasu sanannun banbanci, pentameter ya kasance mafi yawan waƙoƙin waka na Turanci. Brathwaite ya nuna cewa irin waɗannan siffofin wallafe-wallafen da aka shigo da su bazai dace da bayyana kwarewar Caribbean ba. Ya rubuta, "Guguwar ba ta yi kururuwa a cikin pentameters".  A nan ne yaren al'umma ya zama mai amfani ga mawaki na Caribbean:

.Quoted in "Professor Mervyn Morris Named First Poet Laureate In 60 Years", The Jamaica Gleaner, 15 April 2014.Brathwaite ya bayyana karanta wani labarin da mawaki da mai sukar Martinician Édouard Glissant ya yi, inda Glissant ya bayyana harshen al'umma a matsayin "mafi kyawun waka" saboda bayi sun yi amfani da shi da dabarun don ɓoyewa da kiyaye al'adunsu.Quoted in "Professor Mervyn Morris Named First Poet Laureate In 60 Years", The Jamaica Gleaner, 15 April 2014.

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