Bocas del Toro Creole, or Panamanian Patwah, also 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 and Colón, along with the Río Abajo district of Panama City. It is similar to Central American varieties such as Limonese Creole,[1] but does not yet have the status of an official language.[2]
| Bocas del Toro Creole | |
|---|---|
| Río Abajo Creole | |
| Panamanian Patwah | |
| Native to | Panama |
Native speakers | 270,000 (2000)[1] |
English creole
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | - |
jam-pan | |
| Glottolog | None |
| IETF | jam-PA |
See also
editFurther reading
edit- Cassidy, Frederic G. (2007). Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica. Kingston: University Press of the West Indies. ISBN 978-9-7664017-0-2.
- Cassidy, F. G., Le Page, R. B (2009). Dictionary of Jamaican English (Second ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5211184-0-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Chang, Larry (2014). Biesik Jumiekan: Introduction to Jamaican Language. Washington DC: Gnosophia Publishers (Chuu Wod imprint). ISBN 978-0-9773391-8-1.
References
edit- ^ a b 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.