Bocas del Toro Creole

Bocas del Toro Patois
Panamanian Patois English
Native to	Panama
Native speakers	(270,000 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	English creole Atlantic Western Jamaican Patois Bocas del Toro Patois
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	jam-pan
Glottolog	None
IETF	jam-PA

Bocas del Toro Patois, or Panamanian Patois English, 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]

See also

• Jamaican Patois
• Bajan Creole
• English-based creoles

References

1. Jamaican Patois English (Panama) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Herzfeld, Anita. "Limon Creole and Panamanian Creole: Comparison and Contrast" (PDF). kuscholarworks.ku.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-03.