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Language Comparison: Romani vs Jamaican Patois
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Aspect | Romani | Jamaican Patois |
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Family | Indo-European, Indo-Aryan | Creole, English-based |
Speakers | Approximately 3.5 million | Approximately 4 million |
Features | Rich oral tradition, significant dialectal variation, retains features of Old Indo-Aryan languages with influences from European languages | 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 | Spoken by Romani communities across Europe, Turkey, and diaspora communities worldwide | Jamaica (primary), and Jamaican diaspora communities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada |
Writing System | Latin script (commonly), also Cyrillic in some regions | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | Yes, typically nominative, accusative, genitive, and dative; varies by dialect | No, uses simplified grammar and word order |
Derived From | Early Central Indo-Aryan languages | 17th-century English, with significant contributions from West African languages |
Loanwords | From Greek, Slavic languages, Romanian, German, and other regional languages | From West African languages, Spanish, and English |
Dialects | Includes Vlax Romani, Balkan Romani, Carpathian Romani, and others, with significant variation in vocabulary and grammar | Includes slight regional variations across Jamaica, but generally mutually intelligible. Influences from urban versus rural areas can be observed. |
Alphabets | A, B, C, Č, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, Š, T, U, V, Z, Ž | 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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