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{{Short description|Jamaican Patois dialect of Panama}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Bocas del Toro PatoisCreole
|altnamenativename=Panamanian Patois EnglishPatwah
|altname=Río Abajo Creole
|states=Panama
|speakers={{sigfig|268,000|2}}
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|isoexception=dialect
|glotto=none
|ietf=jam-PA
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'''Bocas del Toro PatoisCreole''', or '''Panamanian PatoisPatwah''', Englishalso called '''Colón Creole''', or '''Río Abajo Creole''', is a dialect of [[Jamaican Patois]], an [[English-based creole]], spoken predominantly in the Provinces of [[Bocas del Toro Province|Bocas del Toro]], and [[PanamaColón Province|Colón]]., Bocasalong delwith Torothe Patois[[Río isAbajo]] a dialectdistrict of Jamaican[[Panama PatoisCity]]. It is similar to Central American varieties such as [[Limonese Creole|Limón Coastal Patois]].,<ref name=e18/> Itbut does not yet have the status of an official language.<ref>{{Cite Itweb was|last=Herzfeld pejoratively|first=Anita known|title=Limon asCreole "guari-guari"and <ref>Panamanian Creole: Comparison and Contrast |url=https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/22851/malc_1980_218-242_Herzfeld.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=kuscholarworks.ku.edu}}</ref>
 
==See also==
*[[Jamaican EnglishPatois]]
*[[Bajan Creole]]
*[[Bermudian English-based creoles]]
 
*[[Jamaican English]]
== Further reading ==
* {{cite book
| last = Cassidy
| first = Frederic G.
| date = 2007
| title = Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica
| url = https://www.amazon.com/Jamaica-Talk-Hundred-English-Language/dp/9766401705
| location = Kingston
| publisher = University Press of the West Indies
| isbn = 978-9-7664017-0-2
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Cassidy, F. G.
| first = Le Page, R. B
| date = 2009
| title = Dictionary of Jamaican English (Second ed.)
| url = https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Jamaican-English-Frederic-Cassidy/dp/9766401276/141-1840496-4717564?psc=1
| location = Cambridge
| publisher = Cambridge University Press
| isbn = 978-0-5211184-0-8
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Chang
| first = Larry
| date = 2014
| title = Biesik Jumiekan: Introduction to Jamaican Language
| url = https://www.amazon.com/Biesik-Jumiekan-Introduction-Jamaican-Language-ebook/dp/B00MHE14WU
| location = Washington DC
| publisher = Gnosophia Publishers (Chuu Wod imprint)
| isbn = 978-0-9773391-8-1
}}
 
==References==
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{{Languages of Panama}}
{{English-based Caribbean creoles}}
{{English-based creoles}}
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[[Category:Afro-Jamaican culture]]
[[Category:Afro-PanamanianAfrican diaspora in Panama]]
[[Category:English language in North America]]
[[Category:Creoles of the Americas]]
[[Category:English-based pidgins and creoles]]
[[Category:Languages of Panama]]