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Language Comparison: Jamaican Patois vs Occitan
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Aspect | Jamaican Patois | Occitan |
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Family | Creole, English-based | Indo-European |
Speakers | Approximately 4 million | Approximately 1-2 million people are first-language speakers, while 5 to 6 million people can speak it. |
Features | A creole language derived from English, West African languages, and influences from Spanish and Portuguese; characterized by simplified grammar, phonetic spelling, and a rich oral tradition. | A Romance language spoken in southern France and parts of Spain and Italy, known for its rich literary history in the medieval period |
Countries | Jamaica (primary), and Jamaican diaspora communities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada | France, Spain (Val d'Aran), Italy (Occitan Valleys), Monaco |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses simplified grammar and word order | No, although Old Occitan had a two-case system that has largely disappeared |
Derived From | 17th-century English, with significant contributions from West African languages | Vulgar Latin, closely related to Catalan and other Romance languages |
Loanwords | From West African languages, Spanish, and English | From Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish |
Dialects | Includes slight regional variations across Jamaica, but generally mutually intelligible. Influences from urban versus rural areas can be observed. | Includes ProvenΓ§al, Languedocien, Gascon, Limousin, Auvergnat, and Vivaro-Alpine |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
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