Bocas del Toro Creole

Bocas del Toro Creole
Panamanian Creole English
Native to Panama
Native speakers
270,000 (2000)[1]
English creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist list
jam-pan
Glottolog None

Bocas del Toro Creole, or Panamanian Creole English, is a dialect of Jamaican Creole English spoken in Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. Bocas del Toro Creole is a dialect of Jamaican Creole similar to Central American varieties such as Limón Coastal Creole.[1] It does not have the status of an official language.

The native speakers of this dialect call it Guari-guari.[2] It also goes by the names of Colón Creole and Rio Abajo Creole. It is a hybrid tongue of English and Spanish with elements of the local Guaymí language of the Ngöbe Buglé people.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Jamaican Creole English (Panama) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 1 2 Schreck, Kristina (2007). Frommer's Panama. John Wiley & Sons. p. 306.


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