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Jamaican Patois and Spoken language

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Jamaican Patois and Spoken language

Jamaican Patois vs. Spoken language

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. A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds, as opposed to a written language.

Similarities between Jamaican Patois and Spoken language

Jamaican Patois and Spoken language have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Consonant, First language, Language, Phoneme, Vowel.

Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.

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First language

A first language, native language or mother/father/parent tongue (also known as arterial language or L1) is a language that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

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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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Phoneme

A phoneme is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.

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Vowel

A vowel is one of the two principal classes of speech sound, the other being a consonant.

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Jamaican Patois and Spoken language Comparison

Jamaican Patois has 135 relations, while Spoken language has 22. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 3.18% = 5 / (135 + 22).

References

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