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Bocas del Toro Creole

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Native to
  
Panama

Linguist list
  
jam-pan

Native speakers
  
270,000 (2000)

Glottolog
  
None

Language family
  
English creole Atlantic Western Jamaican Creole Bocas del Toro Creole

Bocas del Toro Creole, or Panamanian Creole English, is a dialect of Jamaican Creole 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. It does not have the status of an official language.

The native speakers of this dialect call it Guari-guari. 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.

References

Bocas del Toro Creole Wikipedia


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