Even as a child, I had some understanding of the complex history that shaped attitudes towards Patwa, which is spoken by an estimated 2.5 million people as a first language and millions more from the ...
Centuries later, Jamaican Patwa and US Gullah Creole retain many Africanisms adopted from enslaved people In 2000, I won a writing competition that awakened me to the depth and variety of Caribbean ...
Many popular myths surround Patois (known to linguists as French Creole or French-lexicon Creole), one of which, is that it is not a ‘real’ language, or that it lacks a ‘real’ grammar, or that it ...
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