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Name:
Jamaican Creole English
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Jamaican; Jamaican Creole; Bongo Talk; Patwa; Patois; Quashie Talk; Southwestern Caribbean Creole English
Number of speakers:
2,670,000 in Jamaica (2001). Population total all countries: 3,202,600
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
3181171
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
jam
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Pidgins and Creoles
Parent Subgroup:
Western Atlantic Creole (cwac)
Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Jamaican Creole English
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