Jamaican Creole/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Jamaican Creole.

Several varieties of a full language spoken in Jamaica that developed from a pidgin and remained in some contact with English, created as a conseqence of enslaved speakers of many African languages requiring a means to communicate; also known as Patois.

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