Is Patois a Dialect?
Most Jamaicans Speak a Dialect of English That Was Developed in Jamaica, and Has Formed a Strong Culture That the People of Jamaica Have Grown Very Proud Of...
Most Jamaicans speak a dialect of English that was developed in Jamaica, and has formed a strong culture that the people of Jamaica have grown very proud of. ... This dialect of Jamaica is known as patois (Pah-Twa)[2], or patwa.
What is the difference between dialect and patois?
Dialect describes different varieties of the same language. Sometimes these are regionally distinct, other times culturally distinct. ... Patois usually is used to describe distinct languages that lack the prestige of the national language.
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Does patois count as a language?
Patois (/ˈpætwɑː/, pl. same or /ˈpætwɑːz/) is speech or language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. As such, patois can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects or vernaculars, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant.
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