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| Bocas del Toro Patois | |
|---|---|
| Panamanian Patois English | |
| Native to | Panama |
Native speakers | (270,000 cited 2000)[1] |
English creole
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
jam-pan | |
| Glottolog | None |
| IETF | jam-PA |
Bocas del Toro Patois, or Panamanian Patois English, is a dialect of Jamaican Patois, an English-based creole, spoken in Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. It is similar to Central American varieties such as Limonese Creole.[1] It does not have the status of an official language. It was pejoratively known as "guari-guari."[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 Jamaican Patois English (Panama) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Herzfeld, Anita. "Limon Creole and Panamanian Creole: Comparison and Contrast" (PDF). kuscholarworks.ku.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
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