Around the world, people of Jamaican heritage are starting to reconnect with the island's powerful language – and its complex history. "Check di English bwoy dem try fi speak Patwa" – "Check these ...

Most words in Jamaican patois, like other English Caribbean patois, are English words filtered through a distinct phonetic system with fewer vowels and different consonant sounds. Patois is written ...

I write in response to Professor Carolyn Cooper’s article entitled ‘Emancipating the Jamaican language lickle-lickle’ published in The Gleaner on August 7. As usual, her argument is on point. In ...

What’s worse than a bad movie? If you ask linguist Joseph Farquharson, he might say a movie that makes a caricature of the distinct patois of Jamaican accents. When asked to be an advisor on the new ...

The Patois user must, therefore, exhibit bravery and selflessness in the face of fierce assault, just as a brave firefighter would to rescue lives and property that are in danger. When someone insists ...

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 ...