08/10/2025
Bon Mwa Léritaj vouzòt! Happy Heritage Month yall!
If yall interested in some merch, it’s available for a limited time‼️
“Langaj Vivan” means “livin language” in the critically endangered Louisiana Creole language aka Kouri Vini / Gombo. A rendition of the Louisiana Creole flag, this item is meant for Louisiana Creole-speakers to show their linguistic & cultural pride. Some may ask what’s the point in tryna revitalize a language that’s been so minoritized that it’ll likely be extinct soon, but that outlook only creates a self-fulfillin prophecy. If we wanna see our language survive, we gotta whole-heartedly believe we will & act accordingly, by doin everythin in our power to improve our own language skills & to help others improve theirs - a part of that, unfortunately, is the need to remind the haters that the language is still alive & kickin today!
For the “Free World” design, on the front is an AuthaGraph world map in blood red. “AuthaGraph is an approximately equal-area world map projection invented by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa in 1999. The map substantially preserves sizes and shapes of all continents and oceans while it reduces distortions of their shapes. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator projection, like the expansion of countries in far northern latitudes.”
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