Jamaican Creole

The roots of Jamaican Creole stretch back of the impact of the British colonists of the 17th and 18th centuries
...and the use of West African slaves to work the sugar plantations in Jamaica
The slaves that came into Jamaica would have spoken mostly African Bantu or Kwa languages
The language contact that ensued over the centuries shaped the Jamaican Creole form as an English-derived variety
After the abolition of slavery in 1833, Jamaica remained under British colonial rule until 1948
In the 21st century, most Jamaicans speak a version of Creole with a varying degree of Standard English forms, owing to the prestige of SE
In the Creole verb system, different tenses and aspects are shown by adding additional words or particles to the main verb, rather than…

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