![]() If two people that know each other are walking past one another, you’ll probably see a typical example of this. ![]() If you ever get the chance to observe Jamaicans interacting you’ll hear these exchanges often. Here are some other standard greetings which you may encounter: There’s also a difference in the way one Jamaican greets another using Jamaican Patwa.įor example, to say Good Morning, you say “Mawnin.” To say What’s Up, you say “Whe Yu Deh Pon?” or older folks would say “Yuh Alright?” Or you can also watch this video which offers a good idea. Portal de la Universidad de la República – UCUR (in Spanish). ![]() "Etnicidad y Lenguaje: La aculturación sociolingüística de los inmigrantes italianos en Montevideo" : The sociolinguistic acculturation of Italian immigrants in Montevideo] (PDF). Le Français dans tous les sens, introduction by André Martinet, Paris: Robert Laffont ( ISBN 2253140015). "Do you speak french? A new "Common Vector" ". ^ "Interdiction de la langue catalane, Louis XIV".(Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Patois has also been spoken by some Uruguay citizens, generally immigrants located in the south of Uruguay, mainly arriving from Italy and France, coming from Piedmont. Other examples of Patois include Trasianka, Sheng and Tsotsitaal. Its dialects often contain folk-etymological derivatives of French words, for example lavier ("river, stream") which is a syncopated variant of the standard French phrase la rivière ("the river") but has been identified by folk etymology with laver, "to wash" therefore lavier is interpreted to mean "a place to wash" (since such streams are often used for washing laundry). Antillean Creole, spoken in several present or formerly French islands of the Lesser Antilles, includes vocabulary and grammar of African and Carib origin, in addition to French. Often these patois are popularly considered " broken English" or slang, but cases such as Jamaican Patois are classified with more correctness as a Creole language in fact, in the Francophone Caribbean the analogous term for local basilectal languages is créole (see also Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole). Jamaican Patois is also spoken in Costa Rica and French Creole is spoken in Caribbean countries such as Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana in South America. Some islands have Creole dialects influenced by their linguistic diversity French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese and others. Jamaican Patois language comprises words of the native languages of the many ethnic and cultural groups within the Caribbean including Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Amerindian and English along with several African languages. It is noted especially in reference to Jamaican Patois from 1934. The vernacular form of English spoken in Jamaica is also referred to as Patois or Patwa. In France and Switzerland, however, the term patois no longer holds any offensive connotation, and has indeed become a celebrated and distinguished variant of the numerous local tongues. Jean Jaurès said "one names patois the language of a defeated nation". ![]() The word assumes the view of such languages being backward, countrified and unlettered, thus patois being potentially considered offensive when used by outsiders. In France and other Francophone countries, patois has been used to describe non-standard French and regional languages such as Picard, Occitan and Franco-Provençal, since 1643 and Catalan after 1700, when the king Louis XIV banned its use. The term patois comes from Old French patois, 'local or regional dialect' (originally meaning 'rough, clumsy or uncultivated speech'), possibly from the verb patoier, 'to treat roughly', from patte, 'paw', from Old Low Franconian * patta, 'paw, sole of the foot', plus the suffix -ois. In colloquial usage of the term, especially in France, class distinctions are implied by the very meaning of the term, since in French, patois refers to any sociolect associated with uneducated rural classes, in contrast with the dominant prestige language ( Standard French) spoken by the middle and high classes of cities or as used in literature and formal settings (the " acrolect"). 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. same or / ˈ p æ t w ɑː z/) is speech or language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. Look up patois in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ![]()
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