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Jamaican Patois Page - Intro section

It exhibits a gradation between more conservative creole forms and forms virtually identical to Standard English.

Jamaican Creole is not mutually intelligible with English although It exhibits a gradation between more conservative creole forms and forms virtually identical to Standard English. Jamaican Patois Page - Intro section

Jamaican pronunciation and vocabulary are significantly different from English, despite heavy use of English words or derivatives.

Jamaican pronunciation and vocabulary are significantly different from English, despite heavy use of English words or derivatives but, their writing system shows commonalities with the English alphabet (Brown-Blake). Jamaican English Page

Jamaican Standard English and Jamaican Patois exist together in a post-creole speech continuum. Jamaican (Creole/Patois) is used by most people for everyday, informal situations - it is the language most Jamaicans use at home and are most familiar with, as well as the language of most local popular music.

Jamaican Standard English and Jamaican Patois exist together in a post-creole speech continuum. Jamaican (Creole/Patois) is used by most people for everyday, informal situations - it is the language most Jamaicans use at home and are most familiar with, as well as the language of most local popular music. While Jamaican Standard English is the official language, Jamaican Patois has began to be used on the radio as well as the news. Jamaican Patois Page

Jamaicans refer to their language as patois. The term patois comes from Old French, patois "local or regional dialect"(earlier "rough, clumsy, or uncultivated speech"), possibly from the verb patoier, "to treat roughly", from pate "paw", from Old Low Franconian *patta "paw, sole of the foot" + -ois, a pejorative suffix. The term may have arisen from the notion of a clumsy or rough manner of speaking.

Jamaicans refer to their language as patois. The term patois comes from Old French, patois "local or regional dialect"(earlier "rough, clumsy, or uncultivated speech"), possibly from the verb patoier, "to treat roughly", from pate "paw", from Old Low Franconian *patta "paw, sole of the foot" + -ois, a pejorative suffix. The term may have arisen from the notion of a clumsy or rough manner of speaking. Linguists refer to the language as a creole. Creoles are unfortunately stigmatized as the 'lesser' language even though the majority of the population speaks Jamaican Creole as their mother tongue.

*** BilCat has addressed that this is not neutral language and thankfully corrected it for me - thanks, BilCat! Jamaican Patois Page

Accounts of basilectal Jamaican Patois postulate around 21 phonemic consonants and between 9 and 16 vowels.

Accounts of basilectal Jamaican Patois postulate around 21 phonemic consonants one which can be contrastive in the Western dialect (Velupillai) and between 9 and 16 vowels. Some vowels are capable of nasalization and others can be lengthened (Velupillai). In consideration of my edits, they have received help from both BilCat and Elysia. BilCat removed non-neutral language and typos, and Elysia fixed my improper citations. She explained how I do not need to add extra citations of the same text/article. She stated that I could just add the last name, in which I believed I had fixed but I did that wrong. Therefore, she jumped in to help and fixed them for me and provided me resources if I were to try editing again.