Jamaican Patois and Twi

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Difference between Jamaican Patois and Twi

Jamaican Patois vs. Twi

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. Twi (pronounced, or Akan Kasa) is a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by about 6–9 million Ashanti people as a first and second language.

Similarities between Jamaican Patois and Twi

Jamaican Patois and Twi have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Akan language, Asante dialect, First language, Mutual intelligibility.

Akan language

Akan is a Central Tano language that is the principal native language of the Akan people of Ghana, spoken over much of the southern half of that country, by about 58% of the population, and among 30% of the population of Ivory Coast.

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Asante dialect

Ashanti, Asante, or Asante Twi, is spoken by over 2.8 million Ashanti people.

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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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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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What Jamaican Patois and Twi have in common
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Jamaican Patois and Twi Comparison

Jamaican Patois has 135 relations, while Twi has 26. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 2.48% = 4 / (135 + 26).

References

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