Jamaican Creole

GPTKB entity

Statements (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf creole language
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Jamaican_Patois
gptkb:Patwa
gptkbp:creolizedFrom gptkb:West_African_languages
English
gptkbp:firstDocumented 18th century
gptkbp:glottologCode gptkb:Jamaican_Creole_English
jama1262
gptkbp:hasCodeSwitchingWith gptkb:Jamaican_English
gptkbp:hasContinuum acrolect
basilect
mesolect
gptkbp:hasDialects gptkb:rural_Jamaican_Creole
gptkb:urban_Jamaican_Creole
gptkbp:hasGlottologName gptkb:Jamaican_Creole_English
gptkbp:hasGrammar distinct from Standard English
gptkbp:hasOrthography gptkb:Cassidy-JLU_system
gptkbp:hasPhonology distinct from Standard English
gptkbp:hasPidginAncestor gptkb:Jamaican_English_Creole
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Jamaican Creole
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Spanish
gptkb:Arawakan_languages
gptkb:West_African_languages
Portuguese
gptkbp:ISO639-3 gptkb:milk
gptkbp:languageFamily creole language
gptkbp:notableBook gptkb:Louise_Bennett-Coverley
gptkbp:notableSpeaker gptkb:Bob_Marley
gptkb:Miss_Lou
gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers 3 million
gptkbp:primaryLexifier English
gptkbp:recognizedBy gptkb:Jamaican_Language_Unit_(University_of_the_West_Indies)
gptkbp:spokenIn gptkb:Canada
gptkb:Cayman_Islands
gptkb:Costa_Rica
gptkb:Jamaica
gptkb:Panama
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:status not an official language
gptkbp:supportsLanguage gptkb:milk
gptkbp:usedBy gptkb:Jamaican_diaspora
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:literature
gptkb:media
gptkb:music
gptkb:oral_tradition
reggae music
dancehall music
gptkbp:writingSystem gptkb:Latin_script
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Kumina
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5