In the past, orthographies for creole languages were mostly developed by missionaries or Western educational groups who applied the orthographic traditions of their own languages to represent the sounds of the creole languages. These orthographies often embodied the inconsistencies of English, French, ...
linguistic models like the diglossia or the continuum model , which map language variation in binary or linear fashions, are characteristic of epistemological traditions of Western linguistics that impact on but may also conceal complex language ideological realities in a postcolonial setting like Belize...
During the conflict between Myal and Obeah in the mid 19th century, the Myal men positioned themselves as the "good" opponents to "evil" Obeah. Laws were passed that limited both Obeah and Myal traditions[which?], but due to the outrages perpetrated by the mobs of Myalists, the British...