Creole

Creoles

In Jamaica an English passed Creole is spoken which represents a history where two languages were contacted through speech with different linguistic, ethnic and social backgrounds.

In the Jamaican language there are several common phonological features as there are in the transcription too, deletion is common in the Jamaican language as you can see they say ‘laik’ rather than like another example would be when they say ‘nau’ rather than now. Deletion is where the vowels are removed from the end of the word this changes to sound of the word so much that if you were to say it in any other area people may not understand what you are saying.

Due to Jamaican being unstable Creole there is no standard way of writing it for example in the text he says ‘Den’ one minute and then ‘dem’ the next, with both words meaning them it is clear to see that there is no standard way of spelling however the  misspelt words to indicate accents.

Missing consonant clusters are also present within the transcript for example when they say ‘memba’ rather than remember and ‘taak’ rather than talk, this is due to the change in accent.