Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teacher points to a blackboard in a school in Jamaica. As Jamaica continues to loosen its ties with the British monarchy, ...

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We may not think of Jamaica as a bilingual society, but local bloggers are assuring us that it is. English and Patois—or Patwa, as it's often written—are widely spoken, but the Jamaican mother ...

Even as a child, I had some understanding of the complex history that shaped attitudes towards Patwa, which is spoken by an estimated 2.5 million people as a first language and millions more from the ...

DR Kadian Walters is a no-nonsense individual who has a deeply embedded passion for the Jamaican patois and for breaking down language barriers locally.Dr Walters, who currently lectures in the ...

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Recent discussions about the exchange between St James Southern Member of Parliament Nekeisha Burchell and Speaker Juliet Holness has sparked a national debate on using Jamaican Patois in Parliament.

Most words in Jamaican patois, like other English Caribbean patois, are English words filtered through a distinct phonetic system with fewer vowels and different consonant sounds. Patois is written ...

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"Check di English bwoy dem try fi speak Patwa" – "Check these English boys trying to speak Patwa". This was often the response, amidst riotous laughter, from elders whenever my brother and I would ...