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  2. Iyaric - Wikipedia

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    Iyaric's lexical departure from the pronominal system of Jamaican Creole is one of the dialect's defining features. [5] [6] Linguistics researcher Benjamin Slade comments that Jamaican Creole and Standard English pronoun forms are all acceptable in Iyaric, but speakers almost always use the I-form of first-person pronouns, while I-form usage for second-person pronouns is less frequent. [5]

  3. Jamaican Patois - Wikipedia

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    Female patois speaker saying two sentences A Jamaican Patois speaker discussing the usage of the language. Jamaican Patois (/ ˈ p æ t w ɑː /; locally rendered Patwah and called Jamaican Creole by linguists) is an English-based creole language with influences from West African, Arawak, Spanish and other languages, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora.

  4. Irie - Wikipedia

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    Irie is a feminine given name, the diminutive or pet form of Iris. Irie (surname) D-Irie, German rapper (b. 1981) Elysée Irié Bi Séhi, Ivorian soccer player (b. 1989) Irie Love, American reggae singer (b. 1985) Irie may also refer to: Irie, a word in Jamaican Patois and Rastafarian English (see Iyaric) Irie Maffia, Hungarian band formed in 2005

  5. Cassidy/JLU orthography - Wikipedia

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    The Cassidy/JLU orthography is a phonemic system for writing Jamaican Patois originally developed by the linguist Frederic Cassidy. [1] It is used as the writing system for the Jamaican Wikipedia, known in Patois, and written using the Cassidy/JLU system, as the Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia.

  6. Category:Jamaican Patois - Wikipedia

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    Writers in Jamaican Patois (2 P) Pages in category "Jamaican Patois" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent ...

  7. List of Jamaican Patois words of African origin - Wikipedia

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    The list of African words in Jamaican Patois notes down as many loan words in Jamaican Patois that can be traced back to specific African languages, the majority of which are Twi words. [1] [2] Most of these African words have arrived in Jamaica through the enslaved Africans that were transported there in the era of the Atlantic slave trade.

  8. Culture of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Jamaican authors are always faced with the decision of writing in standard English for a huge worldwide audience, or in the local patois, for a much smaller, but more trendy, audience. Jamaican films with patois sound-tracks such as The Harder They Come (1972) require sub-titles for export to general markets. In general, the use of patois ...

  9. White Teeth - Wikipedia

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    Irie—whose name means "OK, cool, peaceful" in Patois—is the daughter of Clara and Archie Jones. Irie has been friends with Magid and Millat Iqbal since birth. After struggling with her sexuality and racial identity, Irie finds answers in her grandmother, Hortense Bowden.