"If there was ever a time to definitively change the status of Jamaican Creole, it is now," said Oneil Madden, a linguist at Jamaica's Northern Caribbean University, in the NYT. Some supporters of ...

This is the Gospel of St Luke in Jamaican patois - or more precisely, "Jiizas - di buk we Luuk rait bout im". The sound of the creole, developed from English by West African slaves in Jamaica's ...

Many Jamaicans speak “patois” or Jamaican creole in addition to Caribbean Standard English. The following patois words and phrases appear in this report: battyman: “Batty” is slang ...