Who are the Garífunas?
The translation of the word "Garifuna" is something like "people who eat cassava" and is used to designate a Caribbean ethnic group whose origins date back to the African slaves brought to the Caribbean during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They also have their own language, the "Garifuna", although this language is only spoken by one third of the almost one million people who make up this ethnic group, as well as by most Hondurans of color. It is very curious that the Garifuna language is different according to the sex of each one, men use a more closed vocabulary and women use words from Arahuaco. Such is the richness and uniqueness of this culture that its language, traditional dances and music of the Garífunas were declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of Unesco.
