Bocas del Toro Creole

Bocas del Toro Patois
Bocas del Toro Patois
Panamanian Patois English
Native to	Panama
Native speakers	270,000 (2000)
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]

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