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Jamaican Patois (And English Schwa)
Jamaican Coat of Arms I’ve recently become fascinated with Jamaican Patois, the creole language spoken on the island of the same name. The language derives from African languages and various dialects...
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“Prime Ministaw:” Jamaican Rounded Schwa
Portia Simpson-Miller (wikimedia) Most Anglophone Caribbean nations have dialect continua, with an English Creole at one end and some variety of Standard English at the other. I find Jamaica’s...
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