Bocas del Toro Patois, or Panamanian Patois English, is a dialect of
Jamaican Patois, an
English-based creole, spoken in
Bocas del Toro Province,
Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...
. It is similar to Central American varieties such as
Limonese Creole.
[ It does not have the status of an official language. It was pejoratively known as "guari-guari."][https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/22851/malc_1980_218-242_Herzfeld.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y ]
See also
* Jamaican Patois
* Bajan Creole
*English-based creoles
An English-based creole language (often shortened to English creole) is a creole language for which English was the ''lexifier'', meaning that at the time of its formation the vocabulary of English served as the basis for the majority of the creo ...
References
Afro-Jamaican culture
Afro-Panamanian
English-based pidgins and creoles
Languages of Panama
Bocas del Toro Province
Languages of the African diaspora
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