Jamaican Patois and Sranan Tongo

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Difference between Jamaican Patois and Sranan Tongo

Jamaican Patois vs. Sranan Tongo

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. Sranan Tongo (also Sranantongo "Surinamese tongue", Sranan, Surinaams, Surinamese, Surinamese Creole, Taki Taki) is an English-based creole language that is spoken as a lingua franca by approximately 500,000 people in Suriname.

Similarities between Jamaican Patois and Sranan Tongo

Jamaican Patois and Sranan Tongo have 3 things in common (in Unionpedia): Code-switching, English-based creole languages, Niger–Congo languages.

Code-switching

In linguistics, code-switching occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation.

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English-based creole languages

An English-based creole language (often shortened to English creole) is a creole language derived from the English language, for which English is the lexifier.

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Niger–Congo languages

The Niger–Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers and number of distinct languages.

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Jamaican Patois and Sranan Tongo Comparison

Jamaican Patois has 135 relations, while Sranan Tongo has 23. As they have in common 3, the Jaccard index is 1.90% = 3 / (135 + 23).

References

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