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Jamaican Patois: From Borrowing to Systemic Identity
Episode 219
Published 4 days, 23 hours ago
Description
Explore how Jamaican Patois evolved from a 17th‑century plantation contact language into a fully nativized dialect, tracing its phonological shifts, grammatical innovations, and cultural impact across reggae, memes, and global slang.
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