Jamaican Patois

Jamaican Creole
Jamaican Creole
Patois
Native to	Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica, United States, United Kingdom, Puerto Rico, Canada
Native speakers	3.2 million (2001)
Language family	English creole Atlantic Western Jamaican Creole; ; ;
Dialects	Limonese Creole; Bocas del Toro Creole;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jam
Linguasphere	52-ABB-am
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Jamaican Patois, known as Patwa, Jamaican Creole or simply Jamaican, is an English-African Creole language spoken mostly in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora.^[2]

↑ Jamaican Creole at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
↑ Lars Hinrichs (2006), Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in E-Mail Communication. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.

[e16-1] Jamaican Creole at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)

[2] Lars Hinrichs (2006), Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in E-Mail Communication. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.

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