Jamaican Patois (NOT English!)

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Published on Aug 18, 2021
This video is all about Jamaican Patois, aka Jamaican Creole, the English-based creole language of Jamaica.

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Special thanks to Irina Bruce and Derrick Ricketts for their feedback and help with the Patois samples in this video!

Video examples of Patois: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLas9oA1SFw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjmHzlqYz-U

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Sources include:

“Jamaican Creole Syntax”. Author: Beryl Loftman Bailey.

Article: Tracing the Pidgin Element in Jamaican Creole. Author: Frederic G. Cassidy. Book: Pidginization and Creolization of Languages. Editor: Dell Hymes.

“The Architecture of the Clause in Jamaican Creole” by Stephanie Durrleman.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.526.2097&rep=rep1&type=pdf

An Historical Study of English: Function, Form and Change.
Author: Jeremy Smith. Page 145-146.

The Syntax of Jamaican Creole: A cartographic perspective.
Author: Stephanie Durrleman-Tame. Page 146-147.

Music:
Intro soundscape: “Bodele Depression Mega Chad Mix” by Jesse Gallagher
Main: “Omission” by Huma-Huma.
Outro: “In Case You Forgot” by Otis McDonald.

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00:00 Intro
0:44 History of Patwa
02:40 The continuum between Patwa and Standard Jamaican English
03:51 Patwa vocabulary
06:18 Patwa grammar
08:45 Patwa pronouns
10:01 Patwa verb tenses
11:45 Question formation
12:45 Sentence breakdown
15:04 Closing comments
15:33 Question of the Day