my girl u a twang fi true.....u r not speaking properly ur jus talking like an american/canadian
TWANG means to adopt the way ppl frm another country speak n thats exactly what u are doing. if u werent twanging there wud be a j'can accent in ur voice when u r "speaking properly"-like u said.
my mom just told me that bunununoos means best not bf or gf r husband or wife like she said........like someone cud say "my bunununoos darling" # deading lol.
@kayLOVABLEBEAUTY I was listening out for her to say "bunununoos" after that I just noticed she was talking about the "butoos" at the end before it cut off. LOL
yow mi learn sumn doe.... mi deh a yard long time, born and raise and never know seh "bununoonus" mean bf or gf...infact, i never her it yet, alll i her is katy
the crazy part about patois is that in certain places it sounds completely different. When i lived in Montego Bay the dialect was so different from Kingston. lol it was funny trying to understand eachother in Patois/Patwa
it still fascinates me how language can evolve. i speak Belizean-creole and i dont ever want to forget it! =]
but bc i speak it so often i'm forgetting my spanish, i speak it ever day when i'm with my mother ... my little brothers are in the process of forgotten it.
@sstephrodas, not sure if there's a class on that dialect. Guess you just gotta have friends or family that speak that way. Just make sure to make an attempt to speak that way (most of my family Jamaican but I can barely understand some of my cousins x_x).
@sstephrodas, not sure if there's a class on that dialect. Guess you just gotta have friends or family that speak that way. Just make sure to make an attempt to speak that way (most of my family Jamaican but I can barely understand some of my cousins x_x).
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@stallionrepublic thaks for the response, but i am looking for dictionaries and cant find them, so i think it will be a difficult thing for me to reach my point:(!!!!!!!!
@sstephrodas depends where u live. u probably can find the dictionary in certain English bookshops. not sure about america. You can learn it but u will never speak the rawest form unless u grow in it. so u may only reach the acrolect or mesolect but not the basilect form of patois.
@CrazySexyCoolmeisha well i am from spain but i live in the netherlands...so its hard to find these dictionaries you know..shame actualley!!!! but thanks for the message anyway!!!
@sstephrodas You will be able to in the near future. It's getting there. But until now it has been considered by almost everyone to be just a verbal language that shouldn't be taught in schools. There is a book called "Understanding Jamaican Patois" by L Emilie Adams
@ericjungleboy thanks, i hope it will be soon then..i will look around if i can find this book, maybe i´ll be lucky and find it you know!!!!!! anyway appreciate it !!!!
@barbs19788 Rihanna has TONS of them released but I do not think they speak Patois in Barbados. They speak Bajan Creole. She has some in Patois though
Search these african music artist & u will see that there are obvious similarities in the music and language being used..here are a few i found on youtube all african except for the last one is beenie man doing collabos with some african artist: Faze - Tattoo Girl, P Square - Do Me, Bracket- Yori Yori, Wande Coal - Bumper 2 Bumper, Samini (rain god), Samini - Where my baby dey, P Square No One Like You, the ghana-nigerian-jamaican connection, The Kromanti Language of the Jamaican Maroons
@CAPECOULORED I don't think that contemporary music from the continent is a good example for finding the similarities in music. A better method would be to listen to maybe the Folkways CDs and recordings (I own a few) to hear how music sounded before there was the ENORMOUS amount of cross-influence you have now i music. I say this because I know for a fact that African pop artists often look to the US and the entire Caribbean for its musical influence. They even make a quasi-rumba!...
@CAPECOULORED Senegalese pop artists, for some reason, really like to make a quasi-rumba type of music, and they look to Cuba for the influence. A better source for finding similarities would be to look at the indigenous music of the continent. For example, my husband's native rhythm can be found amongst the people of more than a few South American countries. It's a distinct indigenous rhythm that has been there for centuries.
@CAPECOULORED But African pop is way too heavily influenced by the US and Caribbean to be able to identify any Caribbean roots in the music. If you check out some of t he Folkways CDs (I think they have them on itunes), you'll see how the music sounded before there was mass media to heavily influence the musical culture of the continent. There are some indigenous rhythms that I know of that I've clearly heard in the African-American music & in Caribbean music. I know you'll notice them too.
@lexdiamonds1990 I was referring to the English-based patois - many of my European friends - German, Spanish and Portuguese - who have learned English as a second language understand the Caribbean "patois" more easily than other native English-speaking people, especially Americans. I believe it is because people who learn a secondary language listen past an accent for the content of the spoken word and are less confused by the expected pronunciations that define different accents.
@suhuso59 I'm not so sure about that because most foreign people I kno, especially people who learn English as a foreign language, find it exceedingly difficult to understand Caribbean patois speakers even when they're only speaking with the accent and not the language features. Maybe they pick out words easier but the grammar and syntax are very different so I doubt they actually understand whats being said, though I could be wrong lol
@suhuso59 I'm not so sure about that because most foreign people I kno, especially people who learn English as a foreign language, find it exceedingly difficult to understand Caribbean patois speakers even when they're only speaking with the accent and not the language features. Maybe they pick out words easier but the grammar and syntax are very different so I doubt they actually understand whats being said, though I could be wrong lol
@lexdiamonds1990 strangely, I do believe that Caribbean patois is a separate language, but not as defined here - my understanding of Caribbean Patois is as a mix of languages, primarily French with some Spanish and various African and very little English thrown in that has developed over time into a language of its own. My grandfather spoke it, and I understood a few words of French and Spanish - a version in the Dutch West Indies was Papiamento, which included both Amerindian and Dutch words.
@suhuso59 That's one example of a caribbean patois or creole. In truth, the actual composition of each patois language varies from island to island. Jamaican patois is a separate language from English but it has mostly English words, with some African, Hindi and Spanish/portuguese thrown in. But in St. Lucia & Dominica it's completely different, their patois is almost entirely based on French, with African and English thrown in, while the Dutch west indies speak a Spanish/Portuguese based patois
Cho blogsclaps mi con fron panama jamaiaca mang! Big up my rasta crew! you see? we espik patois in panama too meng! and we invent regueton too becos Dem Bow is from panama you know 507 cual es la que es? esto laopesillo van a saber de nosotro LARAMERCY!!!!
@SirRaze This is an actual language. It is a combonation of different languages. Unnu is from Nigeria Dutty is from Ghana. Some Irish dilects are mixed in plus many more. I learned when working at a Library and met up with an Irish. I was shocked at the language that the Irish speak. It was not in English but another Language. So the language is not made up but a mix of different languages.
@beyondgreat No doubt. Anyone to argue that point would be foolish. I was meaning the kids in the video "haffi learn fi talk jargon wit dem brethren and sistren". One love..
That's cool how there's a word for any of boyfriend, girlfriend, wife or husband. My girlfriend is from Uganda and she originally didn't realize that there's a difference between your grandparents and their siblings in relation to her because they're all called the same thing in Luganda. Maybe Jamaican Patois didn't originate out of Uganda at all, but it's cool for a white guy to see a little parallel like that. haha
No matter how much you critique her and whatever wrong information she may have give - u cant deny she is a nice tour guide, very friendly and very chatty. I would love to have her as my guide (so far as she gives me all the right historical information) - She is very nice person
i met a girl that spoke this and it was a poison that took me. it creeped into my ears and made me drunk with love. the way it flowed from her mouth was so sweet i forgot my own name. all i could do was just give to her will. i miss her bad. i met her on a job and when it ended she was gone. but the sweet song of a jamaican patois took a peace of me with it. i would love to hear a really sweet love song from her
@sesamestreetsquad if i did that i wouldnt be good for anything for the rest of my life . all i would want to do would be to follow her around sniffing the air hungry for more. begging for the next fix lol
To the people jumping all over Quietness: Patois is a language. He's not insulting you. He's using the accepted academic definition of a creole language. He's assigning Patois legitimacy, not trying to insult or judge anybody. Every language began its life as a creole. Patois is extremely interesting because it is so young. It is still easy to see the heavy influence of the parent languages. (I'm not Jamaican. I'm from Louisiana. We have creoles here, too, and they are beautiful languages, too)
patois is interesting. I remember being in jamaica and someone asking me something in english, amybe with some patois mixed in there, but my secondary language is english and main is spanish so it took a bit to understand. But I just don't think I could learn this, since it's quite fast
Unfortunately I had to get really rude with an educated nincompoop to Make my point but I love being a Jamaican and love the fact that I have the freedom to speak whatever language I choose. @ quietness # fail
some of these comments are irrelavant and, frankly, disheartening.
i find the birth and evolution of language fascinating and don't believe anyone should be judged based on how they speak.
this impromptu language "lesson" is really neat and if we took the time to learn just a little bit about the way one another speaks i think people would get along much better.
Tank you gyal - am not jamaican, but mi learn the accent welll well. & please ignore all the ignorant comments (u know it will come from nobody but 1 grp of ppl= THE WORLD MOST CERTIFIED IGNORANT COUNTRY OF THE UNIVERSE) - Am not mentioning any names who these igorant citizens are but even the cave man knows who they are.They always feel superior & feel anything outside the 4walls of their nation is foreign & doesnt matter.Same ignorance and arrogance that got their ass kicked (clears throat).
@quiteness maybe I did not make myself clear the first time, then I suggest that you read again. In my first comment that's exactly the point i was making. NO ONE, INCLUDING MYSELF SPEAK PATOIS IN ITS TRUE FORM!!!!!!! TAKE YOUR THUMB AND STICK IT IN YOUR MOUTH AND SHUT THE HELL UP. YOU DUMB FRIG. YOU CONTRADICT YOUR SELF IN SO MANY WAYS ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY. READ A BOOK AND TAKE A CHILL PILL. MI AGO CHAT MI PATWAH IF MI WAAN, AND I CAN GIVE IT TO YOU LIKE A YANKEE TOO NAH MEAN???!!!
Do people really not understand Patois? I'm from the UK, never been to Jamaica, don't really listen to reggae and I understand pretty much everything...
@ quietness under no circumstance did I ever bring up America or the way Americans speak. However it's apparent that you have a chip on your shoulder and feel that you are intellectually superior to us common folk. But let me make this clear to you, I will not pass judgement on anyone based on their language, dialect or mother tongue so don't you dare do that to me. I was born in Jamaica to Jamaican parents and schooled there as well. However I had to acclimate myself to American way of life
Um when did i ever pass judgement on you because you speak patois? That is your own inferiority complex coming out. If saying Patois is a creole based off of African languages and English is an insult then you are so flawed that I cannot talk to you.
There is no such thing as pure patois because there is no such thing as "standard patois". Just like there is no such thing as standard english. Patois is not broken English it's just Patois, that's all there is to it.
Some of you who are saying what's Jamaican and what's not Jamaican should go back to the origin of our dialect. Our dearest teacher, Ms. Lou said it right, no one in Jamaica speak patois in it's correct form anymore. Jamaica's dialect is a mixture of many different languages. For example, spanish, French and latin. Hombre-man, madamosell, madesoille(please forgive my spelling) but that means woman. I'm proud of my heritage. My maternal great-grandfather was from east India, my paternal great-g
dont even try that > clearly you dont anything... becuz some islands cant even understand when africans talk... so therefore we are different people but same race.... its like saying spanish people are white.... no even close so dont compare us please and thanks
jamaican patois ain't no mixture of african language. its a slanged out version of english all jumbled together. jamaicans spell words and sentences funny too.
Boi com ya sah! gwaan ha shap anna fetch somah! wah dem calls it? fetch me sum trecha wheat, ann bring sum loose change fe deh lectri-city cah it soon bun out, cah unna pickny ha mess round wid light switch. Keep de change fe wen cream cart come.
@bomaoneuk - Jamaican Creole (also called Patwa) is a language consisting of many dialects. It fits the definition of a language, not a dialect. Like any other language, it has its own grammar, literature and culture. It also has its own writing system. Its lack of acceptance by many (including some who speak it fluently) does not make it any less a language. If we are proud of who we are, we should also be proud of what makes us who we are. So, contrary to popular belief, Jamaica is bilingual.
One more thing patois is a ixture of different languages such as english african and even spanish it's also broken english, that's how people describe it :p
There isn't a specific type of jamaican -_- it's Patois the best language ever! A widda gwan wit dem rass :) It's fun because nobody knows what the hell are you saying. One love rastafarians :D
@TheWarknight123 Yuh Know Wah Get Pon Me Nerves Is When Me Speak Patois And Sumbody A Walk Up To Me And Ask "Are You Jamaican?" Jamaicans Nuh De Only Ones Inna De West Indies That Speak Patois.
@GaZaGiRl15 Yea, I agree your very right but i'm just putting through a point that's all it can be a bit offensive at times when people automatically assume your culture just because of an accent or the language you speak.
@xenakaii Lol exactly i'm glad to see so many people agree with me. It seems like a lot of people are ignorant when it comes to the west indies they only know of jamaica so they assume every west indian comes from there.
It was not invented to confuse the slavers, it is a creole just like any other creole language. As for speaking proper English, Jamaican Patois is not English, its a separate language based off of English and mixture of African languages.
@Quiteness That's right. Jamaicans also need to know that the language is not broken in any way. In fact, scientifically, there is no such thing as broken English, broken French, etc. Just because some people who don't speak Jamaican can understand a few words, it does not mean that it is not a language or that it is some sort of English. Wait. It's just a matter of time until the day when many will be happy to tell people that Jamaican is what they speak. English went through that too.
@Chuuwod Why you'll writing about Jamaican Patois, and don't know anything about it's origin or what it is call, and for your information it is not a language, It is a dialect. Please you and that Quiteness should research about the dialect before both of you come on here telling us what do we speak. Patois is a part of our culture, so don't come on here trying to convince us what we talk. We are proud of who we are, and JA consist of many race or ethnic groups.
Respond to this video... Jamaica consists of many ethnic group and race, with the majority being of African origin. We are proud of our culture, so don't come tell us who we are and what we speak. Get it right Patois is a dialect that we speak along with English and since English is the official language of the country that is what taught in school. The official language of USA is English , but most Black or African- Americans also speak Ebonics.
#1 Ebonics is not real. What we speak is adapted from what the whites from England spoke when they came over here. Go to certain parts of England and they talk the same way we do. Southern whites talk EXACTLY like us. We didnt learn English from ourselves, they taught us. Read Miseducation of the Negro.
#2. Saying it is a dialect is like me saying Gullah is a dialect. Gullah is a creole just like Patois is a creole. You cannot understand Gullah.
Jamaicans speak a dialect of english, and they also speak a creole. The dialect is what we here when a jamaican is talking to US, when they are talking amongst each other, they use a creole. The two are separate.
@Quiteness u d'ont know what your talkin about huh when there talkin to people who are not jamaican there not speaking no dialect there speakin regular english people just hear and look at them diffrently because of there accent. that comes from there native tongue which is JAMAICAN CREOLE please d'ont argue with me i come from a jamaican family so i know what i'm talkin about.
Actually you sound quite ignorant. They are speaking a dialect just like Indians are speaking a dialect, just like Africans are speaking a dialect. There are ways of talking, vocabulary, and slang, which makes it Jamaican English. Maybe if you did your research and stopped trying to down people you would learn something. There is no such thing as regular english because English has no official standard. Jamaican English =/= Jamaican Creole.
What is wrong with being a creole? it's a creole....have some pride what do you think Patois spontaneously generated? Jamaicans are from AFRICA. Have some pride.
@Quiteness u don't know one thing about Jamaican patois. For your information it is Patois not creole, don't come tell we what we call our dialect. English is the official language of Jamaica, using the English's version. The dialect that we speak is call Patois. Did you hear Yendi Phillips answer her question in Patois on Miss Universe?
Go get inform before you come on here telling us what we speak. Bout Jamaica English =Jamaican Creole, u are the ignorant one. Get your facts straight
Patois is what Jamaicans call their CREOLE. "Creole" is the common name for the French Creole spoken in the Americas. That does not mean that all creoles are french. In fact, Creole is a common name for ANY creole in many languages. For ex, Sierra Leone= Krio, Cape Verde/Angola= Kriu, etc. I am sorry that the English have succeeded in making you feel less for not speaking like Britons. You obviously have no pride in that.
@Quiteness patwa and creole is to different languages! learn your facts idiot. crole is what haitians speak. and as you can see if your not too illiterate is that jamaica and haiti and two different countries with two languages ! learn the facts and stop trying to outsmart people!
@lilibby15 Creole is commonly known as the language of Haiti, but creole itself has different meanings. Creole is not only a people in Louisiana, nor it is only a language spoken in Louisiana and/or Haiti. You are limiting the usage of the word.
Wtf? Creole is a common name for French creoles spoken in the Caribbean and Lousiana. Patois is the common name for Jamaican Creole English. Creole does not mean french, it means any pidgin language spoken natively amongst a people. Portunhol is a creole, its not called "creole" but it is one.
And Jamaicans did come from Africa. That has to be the dumbest comment ever. You sound like a Dominican right about now.
@Quiteness um actually your comments are the dumbest, if you were really a jamaican you would know that we do not speak creole. creole language is known in louisiana and haiti amg france but not in jamaica. i think before you try to outrun people who is actually jamaican you need to get your information correct. And we jamaicans are NOT from Africa. Jamaica and Africa are two different countries. i dont speak creole. you are one dumb and illiterate person and your ignorant! go learn something!!!
@Quiteness You keep saying Africa this and Africa that but what about the Jamaicans whose maternity is not African but Asian and have Ashanti who would not reconize you if your maternity neva come from them.
@lilibby15 jamaica and Africa are two differnt countries??? WTF?? Africa is not a country!! It's a continent. I don't know why most black jamaicans prefer to separate themselves from their African Ancestry. The whiteman fucked up ya'll minds in JA Coz he made u believe the lighter your skin, the "more acceptable" you are.Position in Jamaica society is based on a hierechy of skin complexion...so sad
@lilibby15 When people say something is Creole, all that means is that it is a mix of two or more different things put together. Jamaican patois is a mix of English with some African, Taino and Spanish words. Words like unnu, chaka chaka & duppy are African words. Word like Pickney is Spanish (came from the word pequeno), and words like Jerk came from the original Taino peoples.
Creole isn't the name for a language, it just a way of describing how that manner of speech came about.
@lexdiamonds1990 as far as i know, nuh is from hindi. it is a word used by people who speak hindi. that was taught in caribbean studies and even according to wikipedia.
@lexdiamonds1990 337 indians were brought to st. kitts during the indentureship period. also, east indians were brought as slaves before indentureship, just not on as large a scale as africans. they eventually mixed with the african population. documents on east indian slaves exist in the southern united states. aside from this, slaves in the west indies who went to other islands brought language with them.
@lexdiamonds1990 Pidgin language is related. Its complicated the differences, but I like how Cajuns and Haitians use French, and how Phillipinos use Spanish...for example, they say Kumista as Como Estas
@lilibby15 One of the foods that Jamaicans love is distinctly west african. Ackee the fruit was imported to Jamaica from West Africa by west african slaves. The name ackee is derived from the West African word Akye fufo. The term ackee originated from the Twi language. . Ghanaians it eat raw, as a fruit.
@Quiteness lol for saying he sounds like a Dominican. So true. Many Dominicans deny their African ancestry....they prefer to coin themselves white, as if white is a superior. Please! @lilibby15. I think we can agree that it is safe to say that MOST Jamaicans have some African ancestry. Yeah, there are Indians, Chinese, etc. but the majority of Jamaicans are black and blacks come from Africa (the continent). Patois IS a creole. Creole does not only include French mixture.
@lilibby15 Thats not true you must have never heard a nigerian or ghanian speak in pigdin english check out a ghollywood or nollywood films and you we see what im talking about. atot of African slaves were sent to Jamaica and the majority of them were from Ghana...
@lilibby15 Im ghanian & soo many of our words are similar..and this is why alot of us West Africans understand the Jamaican patois very easily. Ghana is the key to understanding why u eat what u eat, why jamaicans dance and talk the way u do, why u say words like "nyam", eat "dokonoo", expressions like "seh feh" when u want to dare someone. (BTW, the word "seh" really means is not the word "say" pronounced badly. As in twi, the langugage of the Ashanti, "seh" means "that".)
@mitalkditingsdem Although "seh" doesn't just mean "that" in Jamaica. It's also a particle that comes after pretty much all verbs of thinking, feeling, and communicating.
Sounds like tottenham to me.
adamsamazingapples 1 week ago
so glad im american.
MsLoyal12 2 weeks ago
Putoo's = A compliment =come and give me a hug my little putu's
Butoo = an insult = Move from here you ugly butu
SuperLuvly1 6 months ago
Haitian Kreyol has more African word than Jamaican Patois
Kevontae678 6 months ago
@ HairH2O what is butoos? my mom says she knows it as putoos
idk why i dnt know these slangs lol(old ppl talk)
kayLOVABLEBEAUTY 8 months ago
@kayLOVABLEBEAUTY I know it as Butoo. I have never heard of putoo
HairH2O 8 months ago
@kayLOVABLEBEAUTY Maybe she did say putoo. There is also Butoo. This is the first time I heard that word.
HairH2O 8 months ago
@kayLOVABLEBEAUTY Here is an explanation "Puttu - Sweetheart" "Boottu - Vulgar Person"
HairH2O 8 months ago
my girl u a twang fi true.....u r not speaking properly ur jus talking like an american/canadian
TWANG means to adopt the way ppl frm another country speak n thats exactly what u are doing. if u werent twanging there wud be a j'can accent in ur voice when u r "speaking properly"-like u said.
kayLOVABLEBEAUTY 8 months ago
my mom just told me that bunununoos means best not bf or gf r husband or wife like she said........like someone cud say "my bunununoos darling" # deading lol.
i never even heard that b4 she seh it lol.
kayLOVABLEBEAUTY 8 months ago
@kayLOVABLEBEAUTY I was listening out for her to say "bunununoos" after that I just noticed she was talking about the "butoos" at the end before it cut off. LOL
HairH2O 8 months ago
@HairH2O The females Chaka Demus and Pliers sing about in "Murder She Wrote" that is an example.
HairH2O 8 months ago
I learned my patois from Vanessa Bling song.. lol
tu4eva 9 months ago
but she have twang fi real! u can hear it in her patois. lol
MsCandrea 9 months ago 3
yow mi learn sumn doe.... mi deh a yard long time, born and raise and never know seh "bununoonus" mean bf or gf...infact, i never her it yet, alll i her is katy
b1r11a1n 9 months ago
the crazy part about patois is that in certain places it sounds completely different. When i lived in Montego Bay the dialect was so different from Kingston. lol it was funny trying to understand eachother in Patois/Patwa
df0124 9 months ago
her accent a mixture of both
chanaynaynelle 9 months ago
gal gway yuh chat tu much
julysa23 10 months ago
lame
gunblazin 10 months ago
it still fascinates me how language can evolve. i speak Belizean-creole and i dont ever want to forget it! =]
but bc i speak it so often i'm forgetting my spanish, i speak it ever day when i'm with my mother ... my little brothers are in the process of forgotten it.
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@sstephrodas, not sure if there's a class on that dialect. Guess you just gotta have friends or family that speak that way. Just make sure to make an attempt to speak that way (most of my family Jamaican but I can barely understand some of my cousins x_x).
Zinxjinxy 10 months ago
@sstephrodas, not sure if there's a class on that dialect. Guess you just gotta have friends or family that speak that way. Just make sure to make an attempt to speak that way (most of my family Jamaican but I can barely understand some of my cousins x_x).
Zinxjinxy 10 months ago
@Zinxjinxy well then it will be difficult for me a guess!!!
sstephrodas 10 months ago
cool jaja
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wwwtotalitaerde 11 months ago
can you study patois jamaican or is it just a verbal language which you cant find study books about??????
sstephrodas 11 months ago
@sstephrodas
yes we do have a Patios Dictionary in Jamaican book stores, not sure if they are available oversees.
stallionrepublic 10 months ago
@stallionrepublic thaks for the response, but i am looking for dictionaries and cant find them, so i think it will be a difficult thing for me to reach my point:(!!!!!!!!
sstephrodas 10 months ago
@sstephrodas depends where u live. u probably can find the dictionary in certain English bookshops. not sure about america. You can learn it but u will never speak the rawest form unless u grow in it. so u may only reach the acrolect or mesolect but not the basilect form of patois.
CrazySexyCoolmeisha 10 months ago
@CrazySexyCoolmeisha well i am from spain but i live in the netherlands...so its hard to find these dictionaries you know..shame actualley!!!! but thanks for the message anyway!!!
sstephrodas 10 months ago
@sstephrodas You will be able to in the near future. It's getting there. But until now it has been considered by almost everyone to be just a verbal language that shouldn't be taught in schools. There is a book called "Understanding Jamaican Patois" by L Emilie Adams
ericjungleboy 10 months ago
@ericjungleboy thanks, i hope it will be soon then..i will look around if i can find this book, maybe i´ll be lucky and find it you know!!!!!! anyway appreciate it !!!!
sstephrodas 10 months ago
I listen and know what 'im chat patois. thank and love
jahblessIful 11 months ago
lol awesome
xboxice2005 11 months ago
whens rhianna releasing a song in patois?
barbs19788 11 months ago
@barbs19788 Rihanna has TONS of them released but I do not think they speak Patois in Barbados. They speak Bajan Creole. She has some in Patois though
beyondgreat 11 months ago
hey gal, stop tell wi secret..lol...
buttacudawey 1 year ago 62
@buttacudawey LMAO zeen
Kharrizzmatik 11 months ago
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haha :D
Sevion777 10 months ago
she's hot
marlo916 1 year ago
i loveee thissss
promise16 1 year ago
she seems very proud!!!!me too, jamaica a di best
lawddi15 1 year ago
y did i even click on diss??? thumps up do she realy can speak english
davola100 1 year ago
Search these african music artist & u will see that there are obvious similarities in the music and language being used..here are a few i found on youtube all african except for the last one is beenie man doing collabos with some african artist: Faze - Tattoo Girl, P Square - Do Me, Bracket- Yori Yori, Wande Coal - Bumper 2 Bumper, Samini (rain god), Samini - Where my baby dey, P Square No One Like You, the ghana-nigerian-jamaican connection, The Kromanti Language of the Jamaican Maroons
CAPECOULORED 1 year ago
@CAPECOULORED I don't think that contemporary music from the continent is a good example for finding the similarities in music. A better method would be to listen to maybe the Folkways CDs and recordings (I own a few) to hear how music sounded before there was the ENORMOUS amount of cross-influence you have now i music. I say this because I know for a fact that African pop artists often look to the US and the entire Caribbean for its musical influence. They even make a quasi-rumba!...
MeAndHubbyToo 8 months ago
@CAPECOULORED Senegalese pop artists, for some reason, really like to make a quasi-rumba type of music, and they look to Cuba for the influence. A better source for finding similarities would be to look at the indigenous music of the continent. For example, my husband's native rhythm can be found amongst the people of more than a few South American countries. It's a distinct indigenous rhythm that has been there for centuries.
MeAndHubbyToo 8 months ago
@CAPECOULORED But African pop is way too heavily influenced by the US and Caribbean to be able to identify any Caribbean roots in the music. If you check out some of t he Folkways CDs (I think they have them on itunes), you'll see how the music sounded before there was mass media to heavily influence the musical culture of the continent. There are some indigenous rhythms that I know of that I've clearly heard in the African-American music & in Caribbean music. I know you'll notice them too.
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CAPECOULORED 1 year ago
no creole is here its english no african str8 yardy.....
TheAvon108 1 year ago
This I cannot understand - How come people whose native tongue is not English understand Caribbean patois better than other English-speaking people?
suhuso59 1 year ago
@suhuso59 Because Caribbean patois is NOT English, its a separate language.
lexdiamonds1990 1 year ago
@lexdiamonds1990 I was referring to the English-based patois - many of my European friends - German, Spanish and Portuguese - who have learned English as a second language understand the Caribbean "patois" more easily than other native English-speaking people, especially Americans. I believe it is because people who learn a secondary language listen past an accent for the content of the spoken word and are less confused by the expected pronunciations that define different accents.
suhuso59 1 year ago
@suhuso59 I'm not so sure about that because most foreign people I kno, especially people who learn English as a foreign language, find it exceedingly difficult to understand Caribbean patois speakers even when they're only speaking with the accent and not the language features. Maybe they pick out words easier but the grammar and syntax are very different so I doubt they actually understand whats being said, though I could be wrong lol
lexdiamonds1990 1 year ago
@lexdiamonds1990 maybe I empathise with this method since this was how I learnt to wade through accents and dialects in German
suhuso59 1 year ago
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@suhuso59 I'm not so sure about that because most foreign people I kno, especially people who learn English as a foreign language, find it exceedingly difficult to understand Caribbean patois speakers even when they're only speaking with the accent and not the language features. Maybe they pick out words easier but the grammar and syntax are very different so I doubt they actually understand whats being said, though I could be wrong lol
lexdiamonds1990 1 year ago
@lexdiamonds1990 strangely, I do believe that Caribbean patois is a separate language, but not as defined here - my understanding of Caribbean Patois is as a mix of languages, primarily French with some Spanish and various African and very little English thrown in that has developed over time into a language of its own. My grandfather spoke it, and I understood a few words of French and Spanish - a version in the Dutch West Indies was Papiamento, which included both Amerindian and Dutch words.
suhuso59 1 year ago
@suhuso59 That's one example of a caribbean patois or creole. In truth, the actual composition of each patois language varies from island to island. Jamaican patois is a separate language from English but it has mostly English words, with some African, Hindi and Spanish/portuguese thrown in. But in St. Lucia & Dominica it's completely different, their patois is almost entirely based on French, with African and English thrown in, while the Dutch west indies speak a Spanish/Portuguese based patois
lexdiamonds1990 1 year ago
Cho blogsclaps mi con fron panama jamaiaca mang! Big up my rasta crew! you see? we espik patois in panama too meng! and we invent regueton too becos Dem Bow is from panama you know 507 cual es la que es? esto laopesillo van a saber de nosotro LARAMERCY!!!!
panama507plenabuay 1 year ago
Dem a gon haffi learn fi talk jargon....
SirRaze 1 year ago
@SirRaze This is an actual language. It is a combonation of different languages. Unnu is from Nigeria Dutty is from Ghana. Some Irish dilects are mixed in plus many more. I learned when working at a Library and met up with an Irish. I was shocked at the language that the Irish speak. It was not in English but another Language. So the language is not made up but a mix of different languages.
beyondgreat 1 year ago
@beyondgreat No doubt. Anyone to argue that point would be foolish. I was meaning the kids in the video "haffi learn fi talk jargon wit dem brethren and sistren". One love..
SirRaze 1 year ago
That's cool how there's a word for any of boyfriend, girlfriend, wife or husband. My girlfriend is from Uganda and she originally didn't realize that there's a difference between your grandparents and their siblings in relation to her because they're all called the same thing in Luganda. Maybe Jamaican Patois didn't originate out of Uganda at all, but it's cool for a white guy to see a little parallel like that. haha
cronin098 1 year ago
I can't believe these people actually don't know what she's saying. Where do they come from?
EGirl12 1 year ago
she got some of our words mixed up,we don't say mumma or puppa, we say madda and fada.and no one says bunununus anymore we say girlfren and bwoyfren
lovemelol125 1 year ago
@lovemelol125 we do say mumma .e.g go suck yo mumma
chaliseandgracehere 1 year ago
I want a rosetta stone of patois ASAP
KittenCollision 1 year ago
@KittenCollision i would buy that in a heartbeat
amcleland1 1 year ago
No matter how much you critique her and whatever wrong information she may have give - u cant deny she is a nice tour guide, very friendly and very chatty. I would love to have her as my guide (so far as she gives me all the right historical information) - She is very nice person
simp1eone 1 year ago
i met a girl that spoke this and it was a poison that took me. it creeped into my ears and made me drunk with love. the way it flowed from her mouth was so sweet i forgot my own name. all i could do was just give to her will. i miss her bad. i met her on a job and when it ended she was gone. but the sweet song of a jamaican patois took a peace of me with it. i would love to hear a really sweet love song from her
apoc6400 1 year ago
@apoc6400 awwww...thats sweet.....you should try making love to one...they holla even sweeter ; )
sesamestreetsquad 1 year ago
@sesamestreetsquad if i did that i wouldnt be good for anything for the rest of my life . all i would want to do would be to follow her around sniffing the air hungry for more. begging for the next fix lol
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Crispiashemmrsha 1 year ago
hab iz patois lol...kingstonians say have lol
evagreen192 1 year ago
I love this lady. lmao. . . .She's funneh.
(fellow Jamaican who always get's confused looks when talking to relatives on the phone)
imcrazy534 1 year ago
To the people jumping all over Quietness: Patois is a language. He's not insulting you. He's using the accepted academic definition of a creole language. He's assigning Patois legitimacy, not trying to insult or judge anybody. Every language began its life as a creole. Patois is extremely interesting because it is so young. It is still easy to see the heavy influence of the parent languages. (I'm not Jamaican. I'm from Louisiana. We have creoles here, too, and they are beautiful languages, too)
tinkerbom 1 year ago 5
@tinkerbom agreed! well said.
lexdiamonds1990 1 year ago
@DR3iiKA...datz NOT true dat Jamaicans are da only ones dat speak patoi...i have some clients from St. Lucia and they speak patoi as well...
sharpshearz 1 year ago
@sharpshearz St Lucian patois is French based and is mostly like Haitian creole, not like Jamaicans.
lexdiamonds1990 1 year ago
wow, she's pretty for a jaimacan chica!
Vanganator 1 year ago
@Vanganator wat u said is an insult
Ceentya 1 year ago 2
only jamaicans speak patoi! any other island has a different language name. buh its similar to patoi, just more easier to speak.
DR3iiKA 1 year ago
patois is interesting. I remember being in jamaica and someone asking me something in english, amybe with some patois mixed in there, but my secondary language is english and main is spanish so it took a bit to understand. But I just don't think I could learn this, since it's quite fast
jose7777777777777777 1 year ago
Unfortunately I had to get really rude with an educated nincompoop to Make my point but I love being a Jamaican and love the fact that I have the freedom to speak whatever language I choose. @ quietness # fail
sorrywontsmile10 1 year ago
some of these comments are irrelavant and, frankly, disheartening.
i find the birth and evolution of language fascinating and don't believe anyone should be judged based on how they speak.
this impromptu language "lesson" is really neat and if we took the time to learn just a little bit about the way one another speaks i think people would get along much better.
melissamick 1 year ago
i can always understand jamicans even when there going for it
1ukjunglednbraver 1 year ago
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Tank you gyal - am not jamaican, but mi learn the accent welll well. & please ignore all the ignorant comments (u know it will come from nobody but 1 grp of ppl= THE WORLD MOST CERTIFIED IGNORANT COUNTRY OF THE UNIVERSE) - Am not mentioning any names who these igorant citizens are but even the cave man knows who they are.They always feel superior & feel anything outside the 4walls of their nation is foreign & doesnt matter.Same ignorance and arrogance that got their ass kicked (clears throat).
simp1eone 1 year ago
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simp1eone 1 year ago
@quiteness maybe I did not make myself clear the first time, then I suggest that you read again. In my first comment that's exactly the point i was making. NO ONE, INCLUDING MYSELF SPEAK PATOIS IN ITS TRUE FORM!!!!!!! TAKE YOUR THUMB AND STICK IT IN YOUR MOUTH AND SHUT THE HELL UP. YOU DUMB FRIG. YOU CONTRADICT YOUR SELF IN SO MANY WAYS ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY. READ A BOOK AND TAKE A CHILL PILL. MI AGO CHAT MI PATWAH IF MI WAAN, AND I CAN GIVE IT TO YOU LIKE A YANKEE TOO NAH MEAN???!!!
sorrywontsmile10 1 year ago
Do people really not understand Patois? I'm from the UK, never been to Jamaica, don't really listen to reggae and I understand pretty much everything...
moabai 1 year ago
@moabai - when she talks slower I understand her. But its when she speeds it up I'm lost.
Its just like talking to the various wanna-be 'gangstas' you see about town.
midbsaj 1 year ago
@ quietness under no circumstance did I ever bring up America or the way Americans speak. However it's apparent that you have a chip on your shoulder and feel that you are intellectually superior to us common folk. But let me make this clear to you, I will not pass judgement on anyone based on their language, dialect or mother tongue so don't you dare do that to me. I was born in Jamaica to Jamaican parents and schooled there as well. However I had to acclimate myself to American way of life
sorrywontsmile10 1 year ago
@sorrywontsmile10
Um when did i ever pass judgement on you because you speak patois? That is your own inferiority complex coming out. If saying Patois is a creole based off of African languages and English is an insult then you are so flawed that I cannot talk to you.
There is no such thing as pure patois because there is no such thing as "standard patois". Just like there is no such thing as standard english. Patois is not broken English it's just Patois, that's all there is to it.
Quiteness 1 year ago 2
she lied..she said she has three sisters and two brothers in jamaican and in english she said she has 2 sisters 2 brothers
sprrk121 1 year ago
Some of you who are saying what's Jamaican and what's not Jamaican should go back to the origin of our dialect. Our dearest teacher, Ms. Lou said it right, no one in Jamaica speak patois in it's correct form anymore. Jamaica's dialect is a mixture of many different languages. For example, spanish, French and latin. Hombre-man, madamosell, madesoille(please forgive my spelling) but that means woman. I'm proud of my heritage. My maternal great-grandfather was from east India, my paternal great-g
sorrywontsmile10 1 year ago
@sorrywontsmile10
Next you will be telling me Americans speak bad english because we dont talk like the British? Wooow...
Quiteness 1 year ago
@Quiteness - yes Americans speak terrible English and its capital not capitol.
midbsaj 1 year ago
they speak similar patois in guyana, trinidad, barbados and any other caribbean island that brits settled.
joe101510151015 1 year ago
@joe101510151015
what do all those islands have in common? Africans.....
hmmmm
Quiteness 1 year ago
@Quiteness um....no
dont even try that > clearly you dont anything... becuz some islands cant even understand when africans talk... so therefore we are different people but same race.... its like saying spanish people are white.... no even close so dont compare us please and thanks
rockiiez 1 year ago
@rockiiez Some islands can't understand each other when they talk so what are you trying to say?
And Spanish people (from Spain) are white.
lexdiamonds1990 1 year ago
jamaican patois ain't no mixture of african language. its a slanged out version of english all jumbled together. jamaicans spell words and sentences funny too.
joe101510151015 1 year ago
DI WAY SHE SPEAK IS SO DAMN ANNOYIN SHE SOUN LIKE YANKEE
shawnaboy4lyf 1 year ago
lol mumma puppa lol oh bowy love it
PrincessRika 1 year ago
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patois is like a retard version of english,really:))
raduandreyi 1 year ago
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@raduandreyi
you are ignorant.
citizenmax 1 year ago
@raduandreyi Yeah, almost all of the words are English, but spoken differently!
RamTerritory 1 year ago
what do gweh mean......or yuh dun know
snook2723 1 year ago
@snook2723 gweh is like "get outta here" and yuh dun know is like "yeah u already know"
popylu2000 1 year ago
Boi com ya sah! gwaan ha shap anna fetch somah! wah dem calls it? fetch me sum trecha wheat, ann bring sum loose change fe deh lectri-city cah it soon bun out, cah unna pickny ha mess round wid light switch. Keep de change fe wen cream cart come.
RenKinRaM 1 year ago
lol...i love how bad she talks...she definately from country....big up country ppl...we chat bad yuh fuck...trelawny ....bam bam
shadeka145 1 year ago
shes making out like tis a different language. Im from London and I can understand everything she says. Its just a bit of slang with an accent
bomaoneuk 1 year ago
@bomaoneuk - Jamaican Creole (also called Patwa) is a language consisting of many dialects. It fits the definition of a language, not a dialect. Like any other language, it has its own grammar, literature and culture. It also has its own writing system. Its lack of acceptance by many (including some who speak it fluently) does not make it any less a language. If we are proud of who we are, we should also be proud of what makes us who we are. So, contrary to popular belief, Jamaica is bilingual.
Chuuwod 1 year ago 2
@bomaoneuk it is a different languange
immasuperninja 1 year ago
i love how patois sounds!
AintGoin 1 year ago
One more thing patois is a ixture of different languages such as english african and even spanish it's also broken english, that's how people describe it :p
TheWarknight123 1 year ago
There isn't a specific type of jamaican -_- it's Patois the best language ever! A widda gwan wit dem rass :) It's fun because nobody knows what the hell are you saying. One love rastafarians :D
TheWarknight123 1 year ago
@TheWarknight123 Yuh Know Wah Get Pon Me Nerves Is When Me Speak Patois And Sumbody A Walk Up To Me And Ask "Are You Jamaican?" Jamaicans Nuh De Only Ones Inna De West Indies That Speak Patois.
Carmelsundaebaybeh 1 year ago 24
@Carmelsundaebaybeh yes thatsz true but the jamaican patois iz different from the others, yes there are sum similarities but its different
GaZaGiRl15 1 year ago
@GaZaGiRl15 Yea, I agree your very right but i'm just putting through a point that's all it can be a bit offensive at times when people automatically assume your culture just because of an accent or the language you speak.
Carmelsundaebaybeh 1 year ago
@Carmelsundaebaybeh type english for fucks sake mon
JJsmallz 1 year ago
@JJsmallz Lmfao Bare Ignorance you must be a miserable person (:
Carmelsundaebaybeh 1 year ago
@Carmelsundaebaybeh dont be mad!
cuz i call it JAMAICAN patois I thought jamaicains were da one to speak it
i didnt know
Ceentya 1 year ago
@Carmelsundaebaybeh I get that same thing...its like Jamaica is the only island in the Caribbean
xenakaii 1 year ago
@xenakaii Lol exactly i'm glad to see so many people agree with me. It seems like a lot of people are ignorant when it comes to the west indies they only know of jamaica so they assume every west indian comes from there.
Carmelsundaebaybeh 1 year ago
Not really. Other ppl from the caribbean sounds like patois.
Kammy1100 1 year ago
@Carmelsundaebaybeh talk di tings ! :D
dattshorty592 1 year ago
It was not invented to confuse the slavers, it is a creole just like any other creole language. As for speaking proper English, Jamaican Patois is not English, its a separate language based off of English and mixture of African languages.
Quiteness 1 year ago 13
@Quiteness THANK YOU LUV....PREACH....ITS NOT ENGLISH....PATOIS IS ITS OWWN LANGUAGE...
ladytexas88 1 year ago
@Quiteness That's right. Jamaicans also need to know that the language is not broken in any way. In fact, scientifically, there is no such thing as broken English, broken French, etc. Just because some people who don't speak Jamaican can understand a few words, it does not mean that it is not a language or that it is some sort of English. Wait. It's just a matter of time until the day when many will be happy to tell people that Jamaican is what they speak. English went through that too.
Chuuwod 1 year ago
@Chuuwod Why you'll writing about Jamaican Patois, and don't know anything about it's origin or what it is call, and for your information it is not a language, It is a dialect. Please you and that Quiteness should research about the dialect before both of you come on here telling us what do we speak. Patois is a part of our culture, so don't come on here trying to convince us what we talk. We are proud of who we are, and JA consist of many race or ethnic groups.
Diafgadgsut 1 year ago
Respond to this video... Jamaica consists of many ethnic group and race, with the majority being of African origin. We are proud of our culture, so don't come tell us who we are and what we speak. Get it right Patois is a dialect that we speak along with English and since English is the official language of the country that is what taught in school. The official language of USA is English , but most Black or African- Americans also speak Ebonics.
Diafgadgsut 1 year ago
@Diafgadgsut
#1 Ebonics is not real. What we speak is adapted from what the whites from England spoke when they came over here. Go to certain parts of England and they talk the same way we do. Southern whites talk EXACTLY like us. We didnt learn English from ourselves, they taught us. Read Miseducation of the Negro.
#2. Saying it is a dialect is like me saying Gullah is a dialect. Gullah is a creole just like Patois is a creole. You cannot understand Gullah.
Quiteness 1 year ago
@Quiteness jamaican patois is english it's an englsh dialect.
Juiceish1 1 year ago
@Juiceish1
It's an English CREOLE, a creole is not a dialect.
Quiteness 1 year ago
@Quiteness it's both it could be reffered to as an english dialect and a creole
Juiceish1 1 year ago
@Juiceish1
Jamaicans speak a dialect of english, and they also speak a creole. The dialect is what we here when a jamaican is talking to US, when they are talking amongst each other, they use a creole. The two are separate.
Quiteness 1 year ago
@Quiteness u d'ont know what your talkin about huh when there talkin to people who are not jamaican there not speaking no dialect there speakin regular english people just hear and look at them diffrently because of there accent. that comes from there native tongue which is JAMAICAN CREOLE please d'ont argue with me i come from a jamaican family so i know what i'm talkin about.
Juiceish1 1 year ago
@Juiceish1
Actually you sound quite ignorant. They are speaking a dialect just like Indians are speaking a dialect, just like Africans are speaking a dialect. There are ways of talking, vocabulary, and slang, which makes it Jamaican English. Maybe if you did your research and stopped trying to down people you would learn something. There is no such thing as regular english because English has no official standard. Jamaican English =/= Jamaican Creole.
Quiteness 1 year ago
@Quiteness English has no official standard? You, sir, are a retard.
mursley85 1 year ago
@mursley85
Actually u are a retard if you could read you would see where i said "english has no official standard."
Quiteness 1 year ago
@Quiteness yes, you absolute muppet. that is the point i made. dickhead.
mursley85 1 year ago
@Quiteness So you're saying that the Jamaican nation's official language is reduced to the categorization as a creole
jhinoyou 1 year ago
@jhinoyou
What is wrong with being a creole? it's a creole....have some pride what do you think Patois spontaneously generated? Jamaicans are from AFRICA. Have some pride.
Quiteness 1 year ago
@Quiteness jamaicans are not from africa
lilibby15 1 year ago
@lilibby15 yes, we are.
MPVentertainment 1 year ago
@Quiteness u don't know one thing about Jamaican patois. For your information it is Patois not creole, don't come tell we what we call our dialect. English is the official language of Jamaica, using the English's version. The dialect that we speak is call Patois. Did you hear Yendi Phillips answer her question in Patois on Miss Universe?
Go get inform before you come on here telling us what we speak. Bout Jamaica English =Jamaican Creole, u are the ignorant one. Get your facts straight
Diafgadgsut 1 year ago
@Diafgadgsut
Patois is what Jamaicans call their CREOLE. "Creole" is the common name for the French Creole spoken in the Americas. That does not mean that all creoles are french. In fact, Creole is a common name for ANY creole in many languages. For ex, Sierra Leone= Krio, Cape Verde/Angola= Kriu, etc. I am sorry that the English have succeeded in making you feel less for not speaking like Britons. You obviously have no pride in that.
Quiteness 1 year ago
@Quiteness patwa and creole is to different languages! learn your facts idiot. crole is what haitians speak. and as you can see if your not too illiterate is that jamaica and haiti and two different countries with two languages ! learn the facts and stop trying to outsmart people!
lilibby15 1 year ago
@lilibby15 Creole is commonly known as the language of Haiti, but creole itself has different meanings. Creole is not only a people in Louisiana, nor it is only a language spoken in Louisiana and/or Haiti. You are limiting the usage of the word.
MPVentertainment 1 year ago
@Quiteness finally, an intelligent person on this thread.
MPVentertainment 1 year ago
@Diafgadgsut tell him again. where him come from? patwa and crole and two different ting! him fool like wah!
lilibby15 1 year ago
@lilibby15
Wtf? Creole is a common name for French creoles spoken in the Caribbean and Lousiana. Patois is the common name for Jamaican Creole English. Creole does not mean french, it means any pidgin language spoken natively amongst a people. Portunhol is a creole, its not called "creole" but it is one.
And Jamaicans did come from Africa. That has to be the dumbest comment ever. You sound like a Dominican right about now.
Quiteness 1 year ago
@Quiteness um actually your comments are the dumbest, if you were really a jamaican you would know that we do not speak creole. creole language is known in louisiana and haiti amg france but not in jamaica. i think before you try to outrun people who is actually jamaican you need to get your information correct. And we jamaicans are NOT from Africa. Jamaica and Africa are two different countries. i dont speak creole. you are one dumb and illiterate person and your ignorant! go learn something!!!
lilibby15 1 year ago
@lilibby15
Ok so how did Jamaicans get to Jamaica?
And here is the definition of creole from the dictionary
Creole- a creolized language; a pidgin that has become the native language of a speech community. Compare pidgin.
There is my PROOF. When you can prove to me how Jamaicans do not come from Africa....i will be thrilled.
Quiteness 1 year ago 2
@Quiteness You keep saying Africa this and Africa that but what about the Jamaicans whose maternity is not African but Asian and have Ashanti who would not reconize you if your maternity neva come from them.
beyondgreat 1 year ago
@lilibby15
oh yea and africa is not a country dumbfuck.
Quiteness 1 year ago
@lilibby15 jamaica and Africa are two differnt countries??? WTF?? Africa is not a country!! It's a continent. I don't know why most black jamaicans prefer to separate themselves from their African Ancestry. The whiteman fucked up ya'll minds in JA Coz he made u believe the lighter your skin, the "more acceptable" you are.Position in Jamaica society is based on a hierechy of skin complexion...so sad
tuumz 1 year ago 2
@lilibby15 When people say something is Creole, all that means is that it is a mix of two or more different things put together. Jamaican patois is a mix of English with some African, Taino and Spanish words. Words like unnu, chaka chaka & duppy are African words. Word like Pickney is Spanish (came from the word pequeno), and words like Jerk came from the original Taino peoples.
Creole isn't the name for a language, it just a way of describing how that manner of speech came about.
lexdiamonds1990 1 year ago 48
@lexdiamonds1990 don't forget words like nuh/nah, ganja and collie which come from hindi.
SelectahKartel 1 year ago
@SelectahKartel nuh isn't hindi, it was just the way the slaves pronounced the word no. But the rest is right
lexdiamonds1990 1 year ago
@lexdiamonds1990 as far as i know, nuh is from hindi. it is a word used by people who speak hindi. that was taught in caribbean studies and even according to wikipedia.
SelectahKartel 1 year ago
@SelectahKartel well we say it in SK and the only indians we have came a few decades ago, so i doubt we got it from them.
lexdiamonds1990 1 year ago
@lexdiamonds1990 337 indians were brought to st. kitts during the indentureship period. also, east indians were brought as slaves before indentureship, just not on as large a scale as africans. they eventually mixed with the african population. documents on east indian slaves exist in the southern united states. aside from this, slaves in the west indies who went to other islands brought language with them.
SelectahKartel 1 year ago
@lexdiamonds1990 Pickney is actually also African.
crescentmoon19 10 months ago
@lexdiamonds1990 It's like a language goulash
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@lexdiamonds1990 Pidgin language is related. Its complicated the differences, but I like how Cajuns and Haitians use French, and how Phillipinos use Spanish...for example, they say Kumista as Como Estas
CocacolaCowboy1919 8 months ago
@lexdiamonds1990 no creole is the name for st lucain patois and patois just means broken language
Riley360ful 6 months ago
@Riley360ful You obviously know nothing. Why bother comment?
lexdiamonds1990 6 months ago
@lexdiamonds1990 yes yes is it a language !! Is the the language of haitian people ..... Im haitian btw im i speake creolee
SwaggaFanm 5 months ago
@lilibby15 One of the foods that Jamaicans love is distinctly west african. Ackee the fruit was imported to Jamaica from West Africa by west african slaves. The name ackee is derived from the West African word Akye fufo. The term ackee originated from the Twi language. . Ghanaians it eat raw, as a fruit.
mitalkditingsdem 1 year ago
@Quiteness lol for saying he sounds like a Dominican. So true. Many Dominicans deny their African ancestry....they prefer to coin themselves white, as if white is a superior. Please! @lilibby15. I think we can agree that it is safe to say that MOST Jamaicans have some African ancestry. Yeah, there are Indians, Chinese, etc. but the majority of Jamaicans are black and blacks come from Africa (the continent). Patois IS a creole. Creole does not only include French mixture.
MPVentertainment 1 year ago
@lilibby15 Thats not true you must have never heard a nigerian or ghanian speak in pigdin english check out a ghollywood or nollywood films and you we see what im talking about. atot of African slaves were sent to Jamaica and the majority of them were from Ghana...
mitalkditingsdem 1 year ago
@lilibby15 Im ghanian & soo many of our words are similar..and this is why alot of us West Africans understand the Jamaican patois very easily. Ghana is the key to understanding why u eat what u eat, why jamaicans dance and talk the way u do, why u say words like "nyam", eat "dokonoo", expressions like "seh feh" when u want to dare someone. (BTW, the word "seh" really means is not the word "say" pronounced badly. As in twi, the langugage of the Ashanti, "seh" means "that".)
mitalkditingsdem 1 year ago
@mitalkditingsdem Although "seh" doesn't just mean "that" in Jamaica. It's also a particle that comes after pretty much all verbs of thinking, feeling, and communicating.
ericjungleboy 10 months ago