Bocas del Toro Creole

Bocas del Toro Patois, or Panamanian Patois English, is a dialect of Jamaican Patois spoken in Bocas del Toro Province, Panama, and 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]

Bocas del Toro Patois
Panamanian Patois English
Native toPanama
Native speakers
270,000 (2000)[1]
English creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
jam-pan
GlottologNone

See also

References
  1. Jamaican Patois English (Panama) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/22851/malc_1980_218-242_Herzfeld.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y


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