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Biesik Jumiekan: Introduction to Jamaican Language

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Biesik Jumiekan: Introduction to Jamaican Language

Larry Chang, "Biesik Jumiekan: Introduction to Jamaican Language"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0977339181 | 248 pages | AZW3 / MOBI | 19.71 MB

A Jamaican language primer for native speakers and beginners alike. There are six sections: Origins, Grammar, Orthography, Vocabulary, Texts and a 50-page illustrated dictionary, presenting the basilectal register or "broad patois," using a modified Cassidy system for writing Jamaican. Selections include works by Claude McKay, Louise Bennett, Joan Andrea Hutchinson and Carolyn Cooper, alongside excerpts of classics from Laozi, Marcus Aurelius, Shakespeare, and Dickens, translated into Jamaican for the first time.