Directory of Jamaican Creole Resources

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This is the English-Based creole of Jamaica. It is related to other English-based creoles of the Caribbean.

Resources in This Category

• An Annotated Bibliography of Rastafarian Speech (Rasta Talk)

  http://thslone.tripod.com/rasta-bibliography.html
  Provides information on the origins of the variant of Jamaican Creole known as Rasta Talk and includes an extensive bibliography.

• Jamaican Creole Texts

  http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/JCtexts.html
  This site has 5 stories in Jamaican Creole.

• Jamaican English

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_English
  A description of Jamaican English.

• Rastafarian Vocabulary

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafarian_vocabulary
  Encyclopedia article on the Rastafarian variant of Jamaican Creole.

• Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect

  http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mufwene/mufw_patrick.html
  A review of this book written by Peter L. Patrick.

Related Categories

• Home > Reference > Dictionaries > World Languages > R > Rasta Patois
• Home > Regional > Caribbean > Jamaica
• Home > Society > Religion and Spirituality > African > Diasporic > Rastafarianism

 

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