#i wld LOVEEE to know more abt hlhow the grammer and vocab is effected bt them
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Jamaican patois my beloved U are suxh a helpful referwnce
#ITS SUCH AN INTERRSTING LANGUAGE TOO the number of other languahe influences is crazy#i wld LOVEEE to know more abt hlhow the grammer and vocab is effected bt them#it more or less uses english as a base#but words like me/my/I/etc. are all simplified to “mi” (I THINK) rather than having multiple versions#would be interested if thats how west african languages work or if thats jusy a product of it being a creole#the participles are so interesting too#the function to cobjugate verbs but work entirly differently than that of english#i wonder again if thats an infkuence of west african languages#then there are paticiples like “fi” which have a TON of different uses where english ones tend to only have one#it expresses posession or obligation. it can be used as “for” in some cases. so cool#I mentioned this with “mi” but often the pronouns dont have much change between like. position#i forgot the word. I mean like “He” and “Him” are the same word (im)#“they” “them” and “their” are all the same too (dem)#theres also a plural you which I always enjoy#it has a lot of notabke similarities to spanish esp. jn the different “to be” verbs#which is cool bcs I wld usually thnk it wld be omitted from a pidgin and creole#it does have spanisha and portuguese jnfkuence but considering its mainly english and west african languages it makes me wonder if#WA languages also have that equative abd locative “to be” verb
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