 Jamaican Creole, locally also known as Jamaican Patois, is a language mostly spoken in Jamaica, but also in Panama and Costa Rica. It has been influenced by English, French, Spanish, and West African languages, for example, Tweet. Jamaican Creole developed in the 17th century when slaves from West and Central Africa were exposed to, learn, and nativize the vernacular and dialectal forms of English. Therefore, this language reflects the struggles of slavery and ancestry from Africa as well as the European colonization and influence throughout history on the island of Jamaica. 3.2 million people speak Jamaican Creole. Even though it is regarded as the official language spoken in Jamaica, its status as being official is not regulated yet. Jamaican Creole differs from standard present-day English in many ways. Jamaican Creole does not use a TH sound, but substitutes the sound with two other sounds, namely the T and the sound. In English, we would say thicc, however, Jamaicans would pronounce this word as thicc. The same can be seen in the difference of pronouncing them as them. The vocabulary of Jamaican Creole is English-based, however, words are used differently and in non-English ways. For example, ignorant is translated as very upset and belly in Creole can also mean pregnancy. Another phenomenon in Creole are new compound nouns, such as eye water for tear. Furthermore, Jamaican Creole uses re-duplication to form new words, for instance, pretty pretty and chatty chatty.