Some Jamaicans can be so prissy and force their children to speak good English. We need to stop living in this colonial mindset and just free ourselves from mental slavery.
Trust me I agree with this and can relate. Jamaicans to a certain extent, are very much still méntally énslavéd. My mom used to act a certain way when I spoke with a Jamaican accent/slang and she didn't like it.. How does one be ashamed of where they come from?? Im tired of Jamaicans kissing whité folks behind. I refuse to be like this with my offsprings!!!
Ace Lee -- So that people outside of Jamaica can understand, and perhaps also because the person filming/interviewing him is speaking standard English.
I lived South London Streatham, Brockley New Cross and Greenwich back in late 60s early 70s, as a student and working with Jamaicans and West Indians for about ten years. I still find myself using patois words I picked up from work mates from the 70s Bless the brother he said’ ’seen’ great video respect
Aarit, mek mi a tel unu sumting... if unu Kyan riid dis, unu Kyan spiik Jamaiken Patwa, mi did a tek taim fi stodi Patwa an mi Kyan writ inna it seim wei! A one gud sitn an a di langwij a wi aat! Unu Kyan lorn fi spiik an writ it seim wei! I can also read, write and speak in regular English just as well. We cannot deny our heritage and our culture. It is a part of us and we need to show our appreciation for it. It is a beautiful language that we can express ourselves in!
@@megataurus7779 the person is saying that they live in England but they don’t speak British English (they never code switch). And they said they’re proud of it (as they should be). (They’re not gonna force the language of colonization unto themselves)
I an I straight from Zimbabwe, pure and true Rasta! speak 4 languages straight, 2 self taught, i teach 2 languages and very proud! only problem is I've met a lot of Jamaican people who renounce their African heritage which is a shame...
like this video. I agree.....We from the Caribbean are bilingual, weather we were ever colonised by The English, Spanish, Dutch or The French. Other from those standard European languages we speak our own developed language (under European capture) is given different names from the outside, such as Patwa, Creole, Pig-Latin, Gibbish and possibly more other names I've never heard. I believe it was probably one of the reasons for many individual successful revolts all over The Caribbean and one of the must successful for any entire country.... Haiti. The original name before the Spanish then the French colonised it to La Española and Saint-Domingue. I love how they gave that name right back after the revolution
@M Bailey @M Bailey I never said our language was given by the colonizers. I was saying even under colonial rule we developed our own language, especially when they mixed up all the different tribes that they kidnapped with the intent of not having us easier communicate with each other. But because of all of the different languages spoken in Africa, in the Caribbean they managed to still create all of the various local languages spoken. Also I know we are an extension of our African ancestors due to similarities in most of our culture. I never insinuated we are tentacles of the Europeans.
Jamaicans have an Irish accent blended in. theres a video on youtube where they compare the two. i thought it was interesting how many things influence and stick in cultures. one love
Thanks to the British Empire and the internet, what we call Standard English is the language of the world. You may not like it, but if you want to communicate on a global level - you have to learn it.
Love this , masa tradition is embedded in black people in this hemisphere, mainly by skin tone, hair styles,dress code, etiquette and linguistics Masa backra unchained the physical but the mind remains enslaved Lot of our brothers and sisters laught and make mockery of our patwah (patios) but we are proud that's is our language, we created and used this, I just want our people to embraced themselves and stop using chemicals and synthetic hair to look like the colonizers There are so much hurdles for us as black people to overcome A different kind of education could make a big difference by presenting images and literature of our great African ancestors to our young ones, give them a choice to emulate their own
I can see that, the language changes from area to area. Even within St. Elizabeth, I noticed the Accompong maroons talk different than the rest of St. E.
@Flying Cupcake Well Rastas has their own Parables in addition to the Jamaican language, so maybe it ain't about just off the boat....gotta listen keenly to what they're saying...
@@micayahritchie7158 i mean i hear there are tribes that did survive in jamaica in the mountain with the maroons, but idk why we haven't learned any taino language from taino tribes men at all and i think we should learn more about the tainos from the tribes
How to write the Patwa dialect is the big issue. That's why Cassidy and LePage came up with an orthography (spelling system) for it back in the 1960's. But that was never adopted by the public, most likely because it looks so extremely different from English spellings. The new "Jamaicasaurus" (Jamaican Thesaurus), which also functions as the only translation dictionary from standard English to Patwa, is written in both orthographies. And it tries to make the two systems a bit more similar. You can google Jamaicasaurus.
tainos and arwakaes (i forgot how to spell the name) were here first, then the spanish didn't come for peace trade no sir, the poor natives suffered so much
When u realize that all languages spoken today are european in some way r form which means u cant claim any we dont even kno the real language b4 prehistory thats wat we shud be aiming for not trying to be part or broken languages
I feel him on what he’s saying but that’s like saying ppl from the hood in America are bilingual too bc they’re not speaking proper English but if they need to speak proper given the situation they can.let them get around another hood person it’s gonna be hood talk/language.
Hello question ,when the oppressors tricked the African ancestors into slavery in Jamaica did those ancestors also speak patois or did it developed through assimilation , I guess my main question is what was the root languages
Quite a bit of languages but the main is Fante and Asante Twi...then Igbo/yoruba...also Wolof...and Fulani..some examples..Juk meaning poke or stab is Fulani...Nyam for eat is Wolof...De like "where dem de" is a Yoruba word...and Unu for yall or you all is an Igbo word...the syntax is also African based where the descriptor comes after the subject rather than before...among other examples
@@abibjahleel419 I didn't know Nyam was from the Wolof people of Gambia. I honestly thought it was a Ghanaian word hmmm interesting. What about "YAHSO" and "DEYSO"?
@@africangodman6145 still learning and studying everyday from talking to my mom (Fluent in Patios and even some deep patios since her family are Maroons) and my own research...there's words that are unmistakenly African like "Kuyah" which we usually say if we are excited or pointing out something of interest or an expression to a suprise...idk where that word Is from either but I know it isn't English.
Ras Tafari are you living on the the MOTHERLAND and looking for JAMAICANS who live their on the motherland i want to REPATRIATE soon looking on Ghana Gambia Kenya and Tanzania
Growing up I remember telling people that all me "what language do they speak in Jamaica?" and I always said "broken English"... Layer I've learned it's "patoi". Lol I recall meeting my aunts, I was maybe 5, trying to correct the way they speak lmao
You hear better when u don’t enlarge the video. You focus more on what is said rather than wondering why his “teeth “ and beard are so opposite in color.
Jah please help me not to regress Into any form of wearyness Instead help me to always progress In whatever way I can be bless. And when I am please let it be in good-health, first before it's in wealth. Dspincemarley
Shut up he’s correct it’s Bi-lingual,Patois is a mixture of many different languages to make the one one language that is patois not just English and French so French has nothing to do with this.
All Jamaicans I have met recognized their African roots especially rastas, if you listen to marley songs most praise africa, Jamaicans are very warm and joyfully people.
Why should we? When we weren’t born in Africa? Some of us never visited Africa. Africa is not on our birth paper. So we should walk around and say that we are African when we wasn’t born in Africa? We don’t need to identify as Africans our feature is very obvious that we are of African descent. We are Jamaicans a Jamaica deh pon wi birth paper.
My friend research patois, creoles, slangs and then dialects. If you then research the history of Jamaican patois you will understand that it is not a slang or just speaking fast. Example the word "unnu" is an igbo(nigerian word)
Unu galang yah mon, faba lacka seh unu nuh nyam fah mawning; mek unu deh gi we unu anancy story!..... I challenge you to use your logic that patois is just how fast we pronounce (English) words to decipher my patois sentence. Clearly you will find some that are not only fast pronunciations of English words and encounter instead words which have descended our African lineage.
@@rickstar1809 my friend i know this. I am of Jamaican decent. What i am saying to you is that the word itself is an igbo(nigerian) word originally.it is not a broken engish word. My point is that you need to understand what patois/creole is. Then you will understand the context of this discussion. Patois/creoles start off as pidgins(a compromised blend of many languages) once rooted and passed down generations they become a creole/patois. Pickney originally comes from spanish/portuguese pequeño/pequeno for small obviously we use it in the context for child. Patois itself is not exclusive to Jamaica as it comes in many different forms. Example gullah in the us. Papiamentu, palanque, french creole all spoken in the caribbean and south America. And came from the same circumstances. My friend have a look at kromanti language and also pigdin English. Bless
sack ratte I’m sorry for your ignorance. Fortunately for me I know my his story and can speak the truth my father passed to me and his to him. I am an Israelite. My family were taken from Ireland to Jamaica following Cromwells conquest. I am a Tracy.
thanks for the post.i am aware that many black people were shipped to the west indies from Britain in the 16th century.do you have any information you could share about the link between Jamaican patois and hebrew?
What's he sayn? Sounds like mumbo jumbo," Jamaicans speak broken English? That accent isnt a different language" I clicked to this thinkin he's abt to speak Hebrew or something " 🙄 Gd lord
This is written patois, we just anglicize it. "Tuu lingguis niem Kiasidi ah LiPiej dem divelop wah sistim fi rait out di piich fi soun laik ou itaak. A disaya sistim, di Kiasidi-Lipiej sistim, wid likl madifikieshan we yuuz pah disya sait. Di mien dipaacha a di yuus a fi maak niezalaiz vowil ina wod laik
@@Ashley-vo3kb That ain’t patois am Jamaican and I can’t understand that and I don’t use to seeing no Jamaican typing like that. That sentence look like Spanish or dutch
@@Lifestylewithjada Yes, it is not taught in Jamaica cause they are pushing English. In my time there was no class that teach patois, I only spoke it and saw Louise Bennett and her poems. When early Jamaicans linguists were officializing a writing system, this was what it looked like but because the government were connected to England at hip, they pushed English. Also there are variants of patois, when I hear older folks talk I can’t understand because they use more African (e.g kromanti)words nowadays patois seems to me like watered down English. No language stays the same overtime btw. If you read what I wrote literally, you will understand it.
@@Ashley-vo3kb U are so uneducated and it shows. Yes i know that patois was never taught in school cause that because its native to us and Patois do not have no consistency in spelling, grammar or construction rules, its vocabulary isn't contained in any accredited dictionary, therefore, why should it be considered to be taught in schools? when every parish in Jamaica speaks differently and spells in patois differently? Thats why patois is an unofficial language. Nobody is pusing english sir, English is the official language of the world if u cant speak english then ur not gonna be accepted anywhere and we were colonized by the english. So whats hard in that to understand? Most country around the world has a dialect and an official language and patois is not an official language Jamaica not the only country that speak colonizer language, please use ur brain... Only the maroons that are in the maroon towns use kromanti or maroons in general speak kromanti so those people that u cant understand are probably Maroons. No other jamaican speaks kromanti. Lmaoo kromanti aint english its the language of their ancestors so theres no way kromanti can sound like patois.I always type in patois and write it on paper all the time and it doesnt look like that what u write looks like its some dutch,spanish or french. I cant understand and patois is native to me patois is english based wtf is that u writing? Jah know if illiterate was a person that would definately be u.
@@Ashley-vo3kb Yes i can make out a few words in that so called patois that u say u writing but not all of it am from St andrew im not used to those dutch writing. The patois i know is english based Lmaooo yuh fool eeh no sah fool print pon dah paragraph yah weh yuh write.
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Jamaicans are very warm and joyful, their smile can light up a room instantly, they are beautiful people ❤
Some Jamaicans can be so prissy and force their children to speak good English. We need to stop living in this colonial mindset and just free ourselves from mental slavery.
@Ace Lee That's why it's good to be bilingual; use accordingly.
Trust me I agree with this and can relate.
Jamaicans to a certain extent, are very much still méntally énslavéd.
My mom used to act a certain way when I spoke with a Jamaican accent/slang and she didn't like it.. How does one be ashamed of where they come from?? Im tired of Jamaicans kissing whité folks behind. I refuse to be like this with my offsprings!!!
Melanated Queen Elle that is the problem x
Why not have children speak both languages? No reason to have to choose between English and Patwa. Kids can be bilingual.
Ace Lee -- So that people outside of Jamaica can understand, and perhaps also because the person filming/interviewing him is speaking standard English.
I lived South London Streatham, Brockley New Cross and Greenwich back in late 60s early 70s, as a student and working with Jamaicans and West Indians for about ten years. I still find myself using patois words I picked up from work mates from the 70s Bless the brother he said’ ’seen’ great video respect
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It's patois/patwah not Jamaican
I think she is referring to the Jamaican accent, not just patois.
Michelle Thompson She said Jamaicans talk not Jamaican talk
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Mr. Ras, i can listen to you teach all day. Respect and love.
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Yes Fari, preach!!! Out of many, one African!!! Real talk and spreading the true word!!!
Aarit, mek mi a tel unu sumting... if unu Kyan riid dis, unu Kyan spiik Jamaiken Patwa, mi did a tek taim fi stodi Patwa an mi Kyan writ inna it seim wei! A one gud sitn an a di langwij a wi aat! Unu Kyan lorn fi spiik an writ it seim wei!
I can also read, write and speak in regular English just as well. We cannot deny our heritage and our culture. It is a part of us and we need to show our appreciation for it. It is a beautiful language that we can express ourselves in!
Same l can read it and write it mi speaky spookie yuh see lol x
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Ah hingland mi deh, But Mi nuh inna no rass queen hinglish. Iman nah switch up my ting, Never iya. So it set. An mi well proud ah it.. Zeen. 💯
@michel777ification an nu lie King. 💯
What are you saying? Can you translate to English as I don't understand
@@megataurus7779 the person is saying that they live in England but they don’t speak British English (they never code switch). And they said they’re proud of it (as they should be). (They’re not gonna force the language of colonization unto themselves)
@@jeminiwade2244 thanks 🙂
Patois is a french word that means: a dialect. Greets love and peace from Flanders.
I an I straight from Zimbabwe, pure and true Rasta! speak 4 languages straight, 2 self taught, i teach 2 languages and very proud! only problem is I've met a lot of Jamaican people who renounce their African heritage which is a shame...
Give thanks Ras Flako for the reasoning.
Find your roots and you will find yourself. All life comes out of the earth, and Africa is the Origin.
@Beverley Hohn Chang did you buy any you need their shit for your food
@@mosesaaron2273 I hate this lady yow!
Yes, Africa is the origin and to be even more precise, Ethiopia is where it all began, more love, more strength.
@@paulgabbidon4101 you can't call dat gal a lady she is nothing.
@@mosesaaron2273 for real she have a bad dose of hatred for black people, but jah will pay her !
Absolutely impressive knowledge 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Trelawney PEOPLE i cant understand them somtime but mi love hear them Clarendon too 😄 Rastafari I and i aan yah
Respect RAS Flako Tafari.
like this video. I agree.....We from the Caribbean are bilingual, weather we were ever colonised by The English, Spanish, Dutch or The French. Other from those standard European languages we speak our own developed language (under European capture) is given different names from the outside, such as Patwa, Creole, Pig-Latin, Gibbish and possibly more other names I've never heard. I believe it was probably one of the reasons for many individual successful revolts all over The Caribbean and one of the must successful for any entire country.... Haiti. The original name before the Spanish then the French colonised it to La Española and Saint-Domingue. I love how they gave that name right back after the revolution
@M Bailey @M Bailey I never said our language was given by the colonizers. I was saying even under colonial rule we developed our own language, especially when they mixed up all the different tribes that they kidnapped with the intent of not having us easier communicate with each other. But because of all of the different languages spoken in Africa, in the Caribbean they managed to still create all of the various local languages spoken. Also I know we are an extension of our African ancestors due to similarities in most of our culture. I never insinuated we are tentacles of the Europeans.
Jamaicans have an Irish accent blended in. theres a video on youtube where they compare the two. i thought it was interesting how many things influence and stick in cultures. one love
Well I know for sure both the Jamaicans and the Irish say the number 3 as "TREE" and they both say thanks as "TANKS" 😁.
Ras Flako! ah you dat bredren? Remember you from CAST days. Love the video!
Well said Ras Flako❤️💚💛🖤
Wise words to grace struggling souls
Adaptation and progression of languages through comfortability seen
Great video 👍🏿👍🏿
In Puerto Rico we maintain our patwa language and very proud of our music culture from our African decent.
It’s actually spelled *patois (it’s originally a French word)
Thanks to the British Empire and the internet, what we call Standard English is the language of the world. You may not like it, but if you want to communicate on a global level - you have to learn it.
Love this , masa tradition is embedded in black people in this hemisphere, mainly by skin tone, hair styles,dress code, etiquette and linguistics
Masa backra unchained the physical but the mind remains enslaved
Lot of our brothers and sisters laught and make mockery of our patwah (patios) but we are proud that's is our language, we created and used this, I just want our people to embraced themselves and stop using chemicals and synthetic hair to look like the colonizers
There are so much hurdles for us as black people to overcome
A different kind of education could make a big difference by presenting images and literature of our great African ancestors to our young ones, give them a choice to emulate their own
True dat....I remember a guy from Trelawny was speaking to me and I couldn't overstand what he was saying😄😃😀and he thought I was joking...
I can see that, the language changes from area to area. Even within St. Elizabeth, I noticed the Accompong maroons talk different than the rest of St. E.
@@cultureducation
For sure
Love Ja🇯🇲 .. .Love Patois....nuff love from Zim🇿🇼
@Flying Cupcake
Well Rastas has their own Parables in addition to the Jamaican language, so maybe it ain't about just off the boat....gotta listen keenly to what they're saying...
@Flying Cupcake
It's only like 1%
Yes love this man love patwah ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️💯💯💯💯💯💯 👍👍👍👍👑👑⭐ I la loo IPA and yunking mean callaloo pepper and pumpkin 😂😂😂😂love it
Jamaican still in love with the queen .
Real Talk Ras.
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Rasta run di world
Nuff respect Ras
We cah give up wi rahtid language. a foo fah language, a fi wi! I wish i knew the Kromanti language
Unda dem mumma bruk lol. Sorry fi mi language deh.
Yu too prety fi lik out like dat , no gual like dat no go unda people muma ,
Anigye3 LivesLover .Wey me fe seh..... Umm.. Yu too bad... Lik dem again...
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The 1st language of Jamaica was Arawakan spoken by the Taino indians!
I mean sure but does anybody still speak it?
@@micayahritchie7158 i mean i hear there are tribes that did survive in jamaica in the mountain with the maroons, but idk why we haven't learned any taino language from taino tribes men at all and i think we should learn more about the tainos from the tribes
@@maymay5600 there are no Taínos left. Everything we know is from artifacts
@@micayahritchie7158 i did hear some weren't terminated
“Most” of natives died people don’t really speak that again. But Arawak is part of patois tho
How to write the Patwa dialect is the big issue. That's why Cassidy and LePage came up with an orthography (spelling system) for it back in the 1960's. But that was never adopted by the public, most likely because it looks so extremely different from English spellings. The new "Jamaicasaurus" (Jamaican Thesaurus), which also functions as the only translation dictionary from standard English to Patwa, is written in both orthographies. And it tries to make the two systems a bit more similar. You can google Jamaicasaurus.
We are all connected...do not let the Babylonian system tell you otherwise......Borinque Africanos Unidos!!!
Real medz
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Consciousness drives language;; it is fluid, expanding....Come merge with it, nuh!?
tainos and arwakaes (i forgot how to spell the name) were here first, then the spanish didn't come for peace trade no sir, the poor natives suffered so much
When u realize that all languages spoken today are european in some way r form which means u cant claim any we dont even kno the real language b4 prehistory thats wat we shud be aiming for not trying to be part or broken languages
Jamaicans are multi lingual
I feel him on what he’s saying but that’s like saying ppl from the hood in America are bilingual too bc they’re not speaking proper English but if they need to speak proper given the situation they can.let them get around another hood person it’s gonna be hood talk/language.
That is NOT what he is saying!
All africans are bi tri quad and multilingual
You don’t know what you’re talking about
Maat Ras no shit
JACE what’s your opinion then
Out of many 1 love . Out of all races creeds and colors we are 1 . Bredred
Hello question ,when the oppressors tricked the African ancestors into slavery in Jamaica did those ancestors also speak patois or did it developed through assimilation , I guess my main question is what was the root languages
Africans sold Africans into slavery
Quite a bit of languages but the main is Fante and Asante Twi...then Igbo/yoruba...also Wolof...and Fulani..some examples..Juk meaning poke or stab is Fulani...Nyam for eat is Wolof...De like "where dem de" is a Yoruba word...and Unu for yall or you all is an Igbo word...the syntax is also African based where the descriptor comes after the subject rather than before...among other examples
@@abibjahleel419 I didn't know Nyam was from the Wolof people of Gambia. I honestly thought it was a Ghanaian word hmmm interesting. What about "YAHSO" and "DEYSO"?
@@africangodman6145 still learning and studying everyday from talking to my mom (Fluent in Patios and even some deep patios since her family are Maroons) and my own research...there's words that are unmistakenly African like "Kuyah" which we usually say if we are excited or pointing out something of interest or an expression to a suprise...idk where that word Is from either but I know it isn't English.
@@abibjahleel419 I hear you Brother, I've been learning alot from the late great poet Miss Lou, very educated woman.
Sadatay🙏
Ras Tafari are you living on the the MOTHERLAND and looking for JAMAICANS who live their on the motherland i want to REPATRIATE soon looking on Ghana Gambia Kenya and Tanzania
Omg MI TOO! Wishing u Irie Blessing and High Vibrations ur way.....I thinking btw Tanzania and/or Ghana
@@lordblkfyretully8867 Hi how you doing are you on the CONTINENT
@@africarain8294 lol NOT yet however I AM Overseas Observing and Pree and Hold a Meds. Foreign ah act up as well as Yaad
Patiis should be our first language but it's not , English is our first language
Dada..
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Jeez I must be multilingual then😁
Patwa
it shouldn't be called bad langue really should it
Growing up I remember telling people that all me "what language do they speak in Jamaica?" and I always said "broken English"... Layer I've learned it's "patoi". Lol I recall meeting my aunts, I was maybe 5, trying to correct the way they speak lmao
PATIOS
@@giniolamy Patios.... Patwa.... Idren talk/ s. Any ting wid Rhythm in deh...
You hear better when u don’t enlarge the video. You focus more on what is said rather than wondering why his “teeth “ and beard are so opposite in color.
Patwa is broken french which is european language
Jah please help me not to regress
Into any form of wearyness
Instead help me to always progress
In whatever way I can be bless.
And when I am please let it be in good-health,
first before it's in wealth.
Dspincemarley
Jamaicans are Tri-lingual cuz we speak English and French mixed it and Patois was born a local dialect
Unique Jujie the what is French mixed it I don’t know that one.
@Sterling FB6 She could also be St Lucian, Dominican, Martinique, Guadeloupe.
Shut up he’s correct it’s Bi-lingual,Patois is a mixture of many different languages to make the one one language that is patois not just English and French so French has nothing to do with this.
Patios is a derivative of broken French mixed with broken English.
It’s is a French influenced dialect.
It cant b africa if it was never name that
Jamaican frist spoke creole language watch is now call patois!!!
Alot of jamaicans dont indentify as Afircans!
@M Bailey very well said
not true
@@donanderson3520 Thank you. Bless up
All Jamaicans I have met recognized their African roots especially rastas, if you listen to marley songs most praise africa, Jamaicans are very warm and joyfully people.
Why should we? When we weren’t born in Africa? Some of us never visited Africa. Africa is not on our birth paper. So we should walk around and say that we are African when we wasn’t born in Africa? We don’t need to identify as Africans our feature is very obvious that we are of African descent. We are Jamaicans a Jamaica deh pon wi birth paper.
Bongo man
I disagree with you Ras, patios is not a language, patios is how Jamaican talk , example how we pronounce words and how fast we pronounce the words
My friend research patois, creoles, slangs and then dialects. If you then research the history of Jamaican patois you will understand that it is not a slang or just speaking fast. Example the word "unnu" is an igbo(nigerian word)
Unu galang yah mon, faba lacka seh unu nuh nyam fah mawning; mek unu deh gi we unu anancy story!..... I challenge you to use your logic that patois is just how fast we pronounce (English) words to decipher my patois sentence. Clearly you will find some that are not only fast pronunciations of English words and encounter instead words which have descended our African lineage.
@@jodonb1 exactly
Leroy Slue Jnr unno means , all a you and then how me say it fast , we just start to say unno
@@rickstar1809 my friend i know this. I am of Jamaican decent. What i am saying to you is that the word itself is an igbo(nigerian) word originally.it is not a broken engish word. My point is that you need to understand what patois/creole is. Then you will understand the context of this discussion. Patois/creoles start off as pidgins(a compromised blend of many languages) once rooted and passed down generations they become a creole/patois. Pickney originally comes from spanish/portuguese pequeño/pequeno for small obviously we use it in the context for child. Patois itself is not exclusive to Jamaica as it comes in many different forms. Example gullah in the us. Papiamentu, palanque, french creole all spoken in the caribbean and south America. And came from the same circumstances.
My friend have a look at kromanti language and also pigdin English.
Bless
Patwah is a Hebraic language. The maroons are African the Jamaicans in general are Israelites.........
No they are not. Stop confusing people!
sack ratte I’m sorry for your ignorance. Fortunately for me I know my his story and can speak the truth my father passed to me and his to him. I am an Israelite. My family were taken from Ireland to Jamaica following Cromwells conquest. I am a Tracy.
omoSango1 Ireland? So you’re white? Well ok, I thought you were Black..
sack ratte I am black I am Black Irish
thanks for the post.i am aware that many black people were shipped to the west indies from Britain in the 16th century.do you have any information you could share about the link between Jamaican patois and hebrew?
Repatriation chant, Rastafari!
What's he sayn? Sounds like mumbo jumbo," Jamaicans speak broken English? That accent isnt a different language" I clicked to this thinkin he's abt to speak Hebrew or something " 🙄 Gd lord
This is written patois, we just anglicize it.
"Tuu lingguis niem Kiasidi ah LiPiej dem divelop wah sistim fi rait out di piich fi soun laik ou itaak. A disaya sistim, di Kiasidi-Lipiej sistim, wid likl madifikieshan we yuuz pah disya sait. Di mien dipaacha a di yuus a fi maak niezalaiz vowil ina wod laik
@@Ashley-vo3kb That ain’t patois am Jamaican and I can’t understand that and I don’t use to seeing no Jamaican typing like that. That sentence look like Spanish or dutch
@@Lifestylewithjada Yes, it is not taught in Jamaica cause they are pushing English. In my time there was no class that teach patois, I only spoke it and saw Louise Bennett and her poems. When early Jamaicans linguists were officializing a writing system, this was what it looked like but because the government were connected to England at hip, they pushed English. Also there are variants of patois, when I hear older folks talk I can’t understand because they use more African (e.g kromanti)words nowadays patois seems to me like watered down English. No language stays the same overtime btw. If you read what I wrote literally, you will understand it.
@@Ashley-vo3kb U are so uneducated and it shows. Yes i know that patois was never taught in school cause that because its native to us and Patois do not have no consistency in spelling, grammar or construction rules, its vocabulary isn't contained in any accredited dictionary, therefore, why should it be considered to be taught in schools? when every parish in Jamaica speaks differently and spells in patois differently? Thats why patois is an unofficial language. Nobody is pusing english sir, English is the official language of the world if u cant speak english then ur not gonna be accepted anywhere and we were colonized by the english. So whats hard in that to understand? Most country around the world has a dialect and an official language and patois is not an official language Jamaica not the only country that speak colonizer language, please use ur brain...
Only the maroons that are in the maroon towns use kromanti or maroons in general speak kromanti so those people that u cant understand are probably Maroons. No other jamaican speaks kromanti. Lmaoo kromanti aint english its the language of their ancestors so theres no way kromanti can sound like patois.I always type in patois and write it on paper all the time and it doesnt look like that what u write looks like its some dutch,spanish or french. I cant understand and patois is native to me patois is english based wtf is that u writing? Jah know if illiterate was a person that would definately be u.
@@Ashley-vo3kb Yes i can make out a few words in that so called patois that u say u writing but not all of it am from St andrew im not used to those dutch writing. The patois i know is english based Lmaooo yuh fool eeh no sah fool print pon dah paragraph yah weh yuh write.