JC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jamaican Patois, Arawakan Languages, English-Based Creole Languages
12 May 2020
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Lecture 1: a timeline of jamaican language, heritage, and attitudes. The taino were native american indians inhabiting jamaica, who migrated there from south. The taino lived as subsistence hunters and gatherers. The taino spoke a language known today as arawakan . Knowledge of the culture that existed in jamaica at that time comes from studying modern. European arrival marked the beginning of the end of taino civilization. The next phase of spanish colonization involved trans-atlantic slavery and settlement. Spanish was the official language of jamaica at this time. English, and west african languages were the primary contributing languages in jamaican creole. Christopher columbus arrived on the island of jamaica in 1492. The british invasion forced the spanish out of jamaica. English now became the official language of jamaica. The spanish sucked at protecting jamaica"s borders to onwards a new linguistic time-line emerges: the maroons. The maroons were west african slaves who managed to escape from the plantation during the.
