• Jamaican Patois (/ˈpætwɑː/; locally rendered Patwah and called Jamaican Creole by linguists) is an English-based creole language with West African, Taíno...
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  • Look up patois in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Patois (/ˈpætwɑː/, pl. same or /ˈpætwɑːz/) is speech or language that is considered nonstandard, although...
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    Macanese patois (endonym: Patuá) is a Portuguese-based creole language with a substrate from Cantonese, Malay and Sinhala, which was originally spoken...
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    regional languages (patois) spoken in France. This began in 1794 with Henri Grégoire's "Report on the necessity and means to annihilate the patois and to...
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  • Pidgin means "You people are crazy." Unu has also found its way to Jamaican patois and Sranantongo (Surinamese Creole) with the same meaning as in Nigerian...
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    A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new...
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    Jamaica (category Articles containing Jamaican Patois-language text)
    Jamaica (/dʒəˈmeɪkə/ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square...
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    Ska (category Articles containing Jamaican Patois-language text)
    Ska (/skɑː/; Jamaican Creole: skia, [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae...
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  • purely Akan than regular Patois, with little to no contribution from other African languages. Today, the Maroon Spirit language is used by Jamaican Maroons...
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    Pickaninny (category Articles containing Jamaican Patois-language text)
    of the Caribbean, especially those which are English-based. In Jamaican Patois, the word is found as pickney, which is used to describe a child regardless...
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