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Jamaican Patois | Jawi | |
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Family | Creole, English-based | Arabic script derivative |
Speakers | Approximately 4 million | Used by speakers of Malay and related Austronesian languages |
Features | A creole language derived from English, West African languages, and influences from Spanish and Portuguese; characterized by simplified grammar, phonetic spelling, and a rich oral tradition. | An Arabic script adapted for writing the Malay language and several other languages in Southeast Asia, incorporates additional letters to accommodate phonemes not present in Arabic |
Countries | Jamaica (primary), and Jamaican diaspora communities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada | Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore, and southern Thailand |
Writing System | Latin script | Extended Arabic script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses simplified grammar and word order | No, Malay as written in Jawi follows the grammatical structure of standard Malay |
Derived From | 17th-century English, with significant contributions from West African languages | Arabic script, with modifications to represent the sounds of Malay |
Loanwords | From West African languages, Spanish, and English | From Arabic, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Dutch, and English |
Dialects | Includes slight regional variations across Jamaica, but generally mutually intelligible. Influences from urban versus rural areas can be observed. | Used across various dialects of Malay and related languages, with local variations in usage and additional letters for regional sounds |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z | ا (‘alif), ب (ba), ت (ta), ث (tha), ج (jim), ح (ha), خ (kha), د (dal), ذ (dhal), ر (ra), ز (zai), س (sin), ش (shin), ص (sad), ض (dad), ط (ta), ظ (dha), ع (‘ain), غ (ghain), ف (fa), ق (qaf), ك (kaf), ل (lam), م (mim), ن (nun), و (wau), ه (ha), ي (ya) |
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