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Weh Patwa Come From: The Layers That Built Jamaica's Own Voice

Weh Patwa Come From: The Layers That Built Jamaica's Own Voice

Patois is not broken English. It is an English-lexified creole built on West African grammar, layered over three centuries with Taino words, Spanish place names, the plantation, the African majority, the Irish servant class, and the children who fused it all into one Jamaican voice.

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