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Language Comparison: Sami North vs Jamaican Patois
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Aspect | Sami North | Jamaican Patois |
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Family | Uralic, Sami | Creole, English-based |
Speakers | Approximately 25,000 | Approximately 4 million |
Features | The most widely spoken Sami language, known for vowel harmony, consonant gradation, and a rich system of inflection | 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 | Norway, Sweden, Finland | Jamaica (primary), and Jamaican diaspora communities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada |
Writing System | Latin script with additional characters | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | Yes, features 7 cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, locative, illative, comitative, and essive | No, uses simplified grammar and word order |
Derived From | Proto-Sami | 17th-century English, with significant contributions from West African languages |
Loanwords | From Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Swedish), Finnish, and Russian | From West African languages, Spanish, and English |
Dialects | Includes Western Northern Sami, Eastern Northern Sami, and Sea Sami, with phonological and lexical differences | Includes slight regional variations across Jamaica, but generally mutually intelligible. Influences from urban versus rural areas can be observed. |
Alphabets | A, Á, B, C, Č, D, Đ, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, Ŋ, O, P, R, S, Š, T, Ŧ, 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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