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How to Translate from Jamaican Patois to Samoan
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Language Comparison: Jamaican Patois vs Samoan
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Aspect | Jamaican Patois | Samoan |
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Family | Creole, English-based | Austronesian, Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 4 million | Approximately 500,000 |
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. | A Polynesian language with a simple phoneme inventory and distinctive glottal stop, often arranged in VSO (verb-subject-object) word order; spoken primarily in Samoa and American Samoa |
Countries | Jamaica (primary), and Jamaican diaspora communities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada | Samoa, American Samoa, and diaspora communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses simplified grammar and word order | No, uses particles and word order to indicate grammatical relationships |
Derived From | 17th-century English, with significant contributions from West African languages | Proto-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From West African languages, Spanish, and English | From English and other Polynesian languages |
Dialects | Includes slight regional variations across Jamaica, but generally mutually intelligible. Influences from urban versus rural areas can be observed. | Primarily homogeneous, with minor regional differences in informal speech across Samoaβs islands |
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 | A, E, F, G, I, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, U, V, H, K, R (rare), and the glottal stop (Κ») |
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