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A Brief Look at Jamaican Creole
I’ll begin today’s post with a wonderful video of the The Night Before Christmas spoken in Jamaican Creole (a.k.a. Patois): For non-Jamaicans the clip above is probably so hard to understand that it...
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Singlish
As I’m strapped for time today, I’ll open up the floor to a question: does anybody know anything about Singlish? This term refers to a creole language in Singapore, a mix of English and various East...
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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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Will English Dialects Become Languages?
The Anglophone World (Wikimedia) It’s a fair question to ask if English dialects may eventually split off into separate languages. This has happened before, of course, Latin being perhaps the most...
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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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