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Dialect and Jamaican Patois

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Difference between Dialect and Jamaican Patois

Dialect vs. Jamaican Patois

The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena. Jamaican Patois, known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) and called Jamaican Creole by linguists, is an English-based creole language with West African influences (a majority of loan words of Akan origin) spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora; it is spoken by the majority of Jamaicans as a native language.

Similarities between Dialect and Jamaican Patois

Dialect and Jamaican Patois have 9 things in common (in Unionpedia): Australian English, British English, Language, Limonese Creole, Literary language, Mutual intelligibility, Nation language, Patois, Vocabulary.

Australian English

Australian English (AuE, en-AU) is a major variety of the English language, used throughout Australia.

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British English

British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Limonese Creole

Limonese Creole (also called Limón Creole English or Mekatelyu) is a dialect of Jamaican Creole spoken in Limón Province on the Caribbean Sea coast of Costa Rica.

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Literary language

A literary language is the form of a language used in the writing of the language.

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Mutual intelligibility

In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.

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Nation language

"Nation language" is the term coined by scholar and poet Kamau BrathwaiteMcArthur, Tom, In the words of Kamau Brathwaite, who is considered the authority of note on nation language and a key exemplar of its use: We in the Caribbean have a kind of plurality: we have English, which is the imposed language on much of the archipelago.

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Patois

Patois (pl. same or) is speech or language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics.

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Vocabulary

A vocabulary is a set of familiar words within a person's language.

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Dialect and Jamaican Patois Comparison

Dialect has 284 relations, while Jamaican Patois has 135. As they have in common 9, the Jaccard index is 2.15% = 9 / (284 + 135).

References

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