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originalsmooth @cgrant (270) • Spanish Town, Jamaica 15 Apr 11

Any jamaicans around or people interested in talking jamaican. Jamaicans have a unique language second to none. If you are interested in learning our dialect let me know. longing to have a Jamaican conversation. examples: weh...

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World Championship

kerriannc @kerriannc (4279) • Jamaica 18 Aug 09

Jamaican athletes once again showed the world that Olympics 2008 in Beijing was not a mystery but reality. They are now in Berlin doing the same exploits that they had done previously. I am so proud that we are now in the position...

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Can you provide four words of your local tongue and the translation ?

ronnyb @ronnyb (6113) • Jamaica 17 Feb 09

In Jamaica we have a dialect and many argue that it is a language in itself, I wont debate that since most persons are more proficient in this dialect than the English language. It is a very interesting dialect called patois and...

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Patois.... Roll your tongue and have fun learnig this dialect.

tjades @tjades (3590) • Jamaica 24 Jan 09

That is the name of our local dialect here in Jamaica. It is pronounced patwah or patwa. The Jamaican patois is actually a mixture of languages from West and central Africa and English. The patwa for hello is...[i][b]wah a...

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