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Jamaican Patois known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) or Jamaican and called Jamaican Creole by linguists is an English-lexified creole language with West African influences spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora. The language developed in the 17th century when slaves from West and Central Africa were exposed to learned and nativized the vernacular and dialectal forms of English spoken by their masters: British English Scots and Hiberno-English.
