Bocas del Toro Patois | |
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Panamanian Patois English | |
Native to | Panama |
Native speakers | 270,000 (2000)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
jam-pan | |
Glottolog | None |
IETF | jam-PA |
Bocas del Toro Patois, also called Panamanian Patois EnglishorBocas del Toro Patwah, is a dialect of Jamaican Patois, an English-based creole, spoken in Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. It is similar to Central American varieties such as Limonese Creole.[1] It does not have the status of an official language. It was pejoratively known as "guari-guari."[2]
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