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Mam | Jamaican Patois | |
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Family | Mayan | Creole, English-based |
Speakers | Approximately 500,000 | Approximately 4 million |
Features | Agglutinative language with a complex system of prefixes and suffixes, ergative-absolutive alignment, and glottalized consonants. | 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. |
Countries | Guatemala (primarily in the western highlands, including Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Quetzaltenango), and parts of Mexico | Jamaica (primary), and Jamaican diaspora communities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No, but uses glottalization and vowel length to differentiate meaning | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, relies on word order and affixes for grammatical relationships | No, uses simplified grammar and word order |
Derived From | Proto-Mayan | 17th-century English, with significant contributions from West African languages |
Loanwords | From Spanish | From West African languages, Spanish, and English |
Dialects | Includes Northern Mam, Southern Mam, and Western Mam, with significant regional variation | Includes slight regional variations across Jamaica, but generally mutually intelligible. Influences from urban versus rural areas can be observed. |
Alphabets | A, B, C, CH, E, I, J, K, K', L, M, N, O, P, Q, Q', R, S, T, T', TX, TX', U, W, X, Y' | 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 |
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