JC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jamaican Patois, Nasal Consonant, Vowel Length

• School: York University
• Department: Jamaican Creole
• Course: JC 1000
• Professor: Clive Forrester

Document Summary

Lecture 3: the writing system for jamaican creole (part 2) Ng followed by another g is not a duplicate, since ng is a single unit, hence: Handle/angle = anggl (these two gs are not duplicate consonants since ng is a single unit) H is not needed at the beginning of words. Some syllables do not have a vowel sound; when this happens a consonant serves as the vowel sound. Other syllables have an even fainter vowel sound. Long vowel sounds in jc normally occur in the same places as the long vowels of english. The long vowel aa usually replaces r when preceded by a but not when r is the final sound. Normally, ie replaces the long vowel sound in gret. uo normally replaces the long sound in. Boat and ou replaces the sound ow in cow and now . Double vowels (also called diphthongs ) are two vowel sounds occurring in quick succession.