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Jamaican dialect contains many loanwords, most of them are from Africa, mainly from Twi (a dialect of Akan).
Many borrowings are from English, but are also borrowed from Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Arawak and African languages as well as Scottish and Irish dialects.
Jamaican dialect:
Jamaica dialect, known locally as Patois and referred to as Jamaican Creole by linguists, is an English and West African lexically-based.
Creole language that is spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora; it's spoken by the majority of Jamaicans as a native language (the majority of loan words, not English, are of Akan origin).
The Patois developed in the 17th century when slaves from West and Central Africa were exhibited.
Jamaican Patois exists primarily as a spoken language and is also widely used for musical purposes, especially in reggae and dancehall as well as other genres. Although Standard British English is used for most writing in Jamaica, Jamaican Patois has been gaining territory as a literary language for almost a hundred years.
Claude McKay published his book of Jamaican poems Songs of Jamaica in 1912. Patois and English are fluently used for stylistic contrast (switching of codes) in new forms of writing on the Internet.
Grammar:
The time/aspect system of Jamaican Patois is fundamentally different from that of English. There are no past participles; instead, there are two different participle words: "en" and "a'.
They are not verbs, but simply invariant particles which cannot be used alone like the English with "be". Their function also differs from English.
Pronominal system:
The pronominal system of Standard English has a four-way distinction: person, number, sex and situation.
Some varieties of Jamaican Patois haven't a gender or situation distinction, but all varieties distinguish between the second person singular and the plural.
Me = / mi /
you (singular) = / ju /
he, him = / im / (pronounced [ĩ] in basilected varieties)
she, her = / ʃi / or / im / (no gender distinction in basilect varieties)
us, our = / wi /
you (plural) = / unu /
they, them, their = / dem /