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Jamaican English, including Jamaican Standard English, is the variety of English native to Jamaica and is the official language of the country.^[1] A distinction exists between Jamaican English and Jamaican Patois (a creole language), though not entirely a sharp distinction so much as a gradual continuum between two extremes.^[2] Jamaican English tends to follow British English spelling conventions.^[3]

^ "Parish Profiles". Jamaica Information Service. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
^ Peter L. Patrick (1999). Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 90-272-4875-3.
^ Sand, A. (1999). Linguistic variation in Jamaica: A corpus-based study of radio and newspaper usage. Tübingen: G. Narr. ISBN 978-3-8233-4943-3.