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Originally posted by KORDEI
patois is not really a language which is why I didn't list it but we definitely do have a lot of words of our own that only we know the meaning of 
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I don't want to sound harsh to u since ur a fellow patois speaker (
nuff respek) but the ISO recognises it as its own language (it has its own language code;
jam).
it's a creole, meaning that it's a natural language that is used in a community (jamaica, jamaican diaspora) and is learnt by children (jamaicans, children of the jamaican diaspora), and has its own grammar system and lexicon.
