Jamaican Patois Words with African Origin 

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@Gideon kobby Yes, the Akan group contains the Ashantis, Ewe, Fanti. I believe the Ga’s aren’t under the Akan group.

@@SunnyGhandle The Ewes aren't part of the Akan group. You are right about the Gas though. I'm a Ga.

@@niimorale4311 No Ga-Adangbe don’t not speak Twi they speak Ga with is not of Akan dialect even though a lot of Ga ppl do speak twi which is the common language in 🇬🇭

@@raskofi8406 @S G guessed that "the Gas aren't under the Akan group". I was only saying he was right about that. I am a Ga.

What do you know about the igbo Jews from that area ?

Nwanne, Chukwu gozie gi. Greetings from a Ghanaian Hausa-Ga-Fante sis w/ some Naija ancestry. Friends and I even with knowing the Ghanaian and Jamaican connection have pointed to Jamaican friends upon seeing proud Nigerians is very serious traditional clothing bragging or flexing, I say, "Have you seen your people?" because as with Jamaican pride and assertion that they are here, Nigerians will let you know they rep GREEN WHITE GREEN. Blessings to good Black people worldwide.

MOST OF THE SLAVES SHIPPED TOO VIGINIA WAS FROM IGBO TRIBE WHAT'S YOUR KNOWLEDGE. I CAN TRACE BACK TO 1800 TO 1826

Peace, bruh. I hope to one day visit both Congos: Brazzaville & Kinshasa. Lingala is one of the most beautiful languages I've ever heard. I'm a Ghanaian sister w/ some Nigerian & Sierra Leonean ancestry. Mpoto-mpoto is even the nickname of a potage made from yam or cassava and I think it's because it has a similar texture to the muddy area we call poto-poto.

Are you from Dominican Republic?

@@imhotep1613Dominica and Dominica republic are different

French Creole Dominica and Spanish speaking Dominican Republic two different types of dominica's

Swahili language African

@@Barlinlove1884 I agree it should be Swahili, but unfortunately Black leaders don't want to offend other nations that they seem to answer to. Frantz Fanon had a point

so true, we hate anything Africa.

What's esse? Thanks

Kiswahili

Congossa=Cameroon

Yep I heard it in Zimbabwe NyAM NYAM

@@stopmotionandgaming4877 ok

I also think there is a lot of Gambia in the Jamaican DNA

Trust me Jamaica same life style same ghetto life,so many similar things

True

Sorry for you loss, my dear. Peace onto you and love from Jamaica 🇯🇲

@@sanjaymoncrieffe7126 ditto that

It’s my pleasure 😁

I remember when I was a teen at school in the UK White kids would ask us what did bumboclaat mean, these White kids would start to use it as part of their vocabulary....UK

Did you forget to mention that the Alan are cousins of the Ashant, according to the map she showed the Ashanti is sandwiched between the Akan tribe, there’s a history behind that. Ghana is huge, I was up in the Akan mountains, they say Kumasi is 4 hrs away. They must be the largest tribe, to me if you are cousins you’re still one family.

@@zawadiyahb.7982 Asante is part of Akan. It is NOT a cousin. Please read my earlier submission again. Also, it is ASANTE not ASHANTI.

@@kwameamponsa-achiano4857 I was told when I went to Ghana that the Akan and Asante are cousins…. I guess it was meant they are related.😀 So then Akan is the Mother and Asante is the child.😀 Why do people differentiate the Akan from the Asante if the Asante is part of Akan?

When I was in Malabo Guinea Equatorial, I hanged out with the Ghanians at the court yard restaurant near their embassy, Twi was widely spoken and used. In fact most of the better English speakers in that country where from Ghanians

@@zawadiyahb.7982 Akan is the name of the tribe but there are groups within the Akan tribe like Ashanti (Asante), Akyem, Fante, Bawule, Akuapem, Nzema,… there are many Akan groups and instead of Akans being recognized as one group like Yoruba or Igbo, Akans prefer to be known by their subgroup more like Asante, Fante and so on… Akans represent about 45% of Ghana population and about 30% of Ivorian population making them the largest tribe in both countries.. in Ghana, Twi (the Akan language) is spoken and/or understood by about 70% of the population

Not being rude, but what did you think they were, English?

Me too, I am a Black Brit of Jamaican heritage and I know all these words but it was only last year that I realised that these words are African in origin, it gives me so much pride. UK

Me too and I am of Jamaican descent.

Mentions colonisation and forgets Africa colonised and enslaved Spain and Portugal for eight hundred years.

Sure right......yeah man!!!!

There is the Patois bible

@@gena3136 Do you really think that is enough? I don’t. Lots of people have their own version of what Jamaican patois should be, that’s why I said it needs to be standardized like the English language like Spanish like French. Jamaican patois Is the language of its own made from other languages. It’s special and should be honoured not scorned not looked down on by high Jamaican Society More than just a local lingo.

@@blackpanda7298 no where in my comments did I say it was enough. Was just stating a fact.

@@gena3136 ok gena

Hi Albert, Thank you for your feedback. Lol maybe we are related. If you want to learn Jamaican Patois there is a playlist here, Jamaican Patois for beginners. Please check out some of the videos and let me know if you have any questions. Blessings!

Very good I like it

Is this channel still exis because i alway feel deep in my gutts that i am not speaking my own language,but i dont know it .

Before I camed to England I didn't know the world owl I only knew patu

Because they are of Jamaican descent especially thought of Bluefields. Slaves were taken in mass from Jamaica to Belize, San Andres and Cayman also Bermuda, Honduras we were in charge of them . These were sold .also Limon Coast Rica

@B1Chronixx Yes Panama and Nicaragua

I wonder if Bommo if the origin of the saying "Bomba claat" because, correct me if I am wrong, I think that's what it means i.e menstrual rag.

@@johnjackissorryinfrench7777 Of course, Bommo was the first cloth invented by Akans before Kente. It was the Akans regular wear. Kente was only used by Royals during ceremonies. Bommo was heavy and dirty brown in color so women used its strips as menstrual pads. This is why Bommo Cloth was used by Jamaican slaves to insult people who are considered dirty. So the words Bombo Clat is actually Bombo or Bommo Cloth. In ancient Akan it was called Kantanchi Bommo, meaning the Cloth that covers all parts.

@@oseitututawiah2109 I don't know which Akan group you come frome, because The word Bommo meant blanket.

@@agoogo5026 It's true, Bommo was also used as a blanket in the olden days because it was very heavy but the true Akan word for a blanket is Kuntu. As a matter of fact Bommo was described as the poor man's cloth because it had so many purposes. It was used as an everyday wear, a blanket, a wound pad, a menstrual pad, a kitchen wipe and even as a toilet paper when it gets old.

You must have got this from Wikipedia that any and anybody can edit but what you copy and pasted is not true. We don't use any of those terms. A spider is just called a spider. We don't say "mumu" that's Nigerian, we say "foo, foo". Vulture is called "jancro". Nyam means to eat and all the other ones are not used in Jamaica at all.

They use red eye in current Ghana too

@@ricosuave8615 We also use the Ibo term 'unu' which means all of you. I remember being able to understand what my fellow Ibo students were saying when I was a student at University, at the time I thought that it was because they were speaking pidgin English and that was why I could understand I didn't know at the time that the word 'unu' was actually African, I find this new knowledge has really made me feel spiritually closer to my African roots. UK

I always say it’s easier to destroy what people say than it is to destroy HOW they say what they say. During the maafa, the euros were able to destroy a great deal of the actual African words we spoke, but they were less successful in destroying HOW we spoke. So, even though they destroyed the word “anibere” from our vocabulary, they weren’t able to destroy HOW we came up with that word. It’s the same thing for the english word tears(crying). We don’t say tears in Jamaican Creole. We say “eye water”. And the term for tears in Twi is anisuo. Ani = eye and suo = water.

Thank you! 😃

Same in Sierra Leone. Look poto poto pan u!

i thought it was yoruba cos we use it too potopoto means muddy especially on the road example - becareful dont get stained by the potopoto on the road.

In Guyana 🇬🇾 we call it Kankie which similar to kenkey. It is prepared in the same manner

@@kenajiyo Both kenkey and dokun (Fante)/dokunu(asante) are used in present-day Ghana. But kenkey is acceptable throughout the country.

@@jwills3347 758 Also called Conkie or Pemee

I want to try it. 😋

Totally correct❤💯💯

C unu..the same in Sierra Leone.

Mèsi sè mwen lol I've always lived creole

What you wrote ...mesi se....means What I am saying...in Akan language in Ghana

Thank you!!

Ah lie. The name Jamaica comes from the Taino word Xaymaca meaning ‘Land Of Wood And Water’ Or ‘Land Of Springs’.

@@sarahharas1692 honestly! What a lie indeed!

@@sarahharas1692 what Errol says is correct. I am a Jamaican residing in Ghana and learned that the slaves were the ones who named the country under the Spanish enslavement. First, the Spanish bastardized the name Gyama-ya-ka-ha and said Xaymaca. Secondly after the spanish/english treaty spain and england, the english changed the name to Jamaica. Those two words, Xaymaca and Jamaica are corporate names for the country (even sizla mentioned it on state once in one of his performances). The slaves were the ones who named the country which means: " We are stuck." When one comes to Ghana and go to the palace in the ashanti region, the tour guide will provide details about the naming of Jamaica by the slaves. The below link also provides further information to backup Errol's statement ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LruM6xpCRMI.html We were brain-washed to think otherwise. I suggest that Jamaicans all over research their history not from our colonizers perspective but through the lens of our people near and far.

@@sarahharas1692 how much of your history do you know or are you one of those who are too ashamed, embarrassed or contemptuous of errols's facts???. You remind me of people who discover they are not what they think they are..... The British really left their mark, yet not too long ago they were refusing to accept as British, Jamaicans who had lived among them since childhood. Jamaica is an anglicised version of the real name those slaves had given it. The meaning so poignant.

As a Jamaican of MAROON ancestry, I know a lot more than you. You don’t even know me and you think I’m ashamed of of being Jamaican? You is a fool. You cannot tell me about MY heritage and history when YOU don’t even know. Cockroach nuh business inna fowl fight.

True! The core of english is germanic, but it's highly influenced by roman languages, mostly latin, and french. Also greek and other languages influenced english. The grammar is still germanic, so one could say, when english evolved, it stopped in the process of creolazation.

Where’s is that

@@radcliffemurphy5273 sranangtongo is the language that the slaves that brought to Suriname created to speak to each other.. It's now a days one of the important language besides Dutch that is speaking in Suriname...

The people of Suriname say that they came from "Kromanti". Well. Kromantse (or Kromanten) is a town on the coast of present-day Ghana. It has a slave Fort/Castle, called, Fort Amsterdam, and which was built by the Dutch. It was one of the 31 forts/castles - out of 42 on the coast of West Africa - that dot the coast of present-day Ghana and was the storage/points of departure for many of our ancestors who were shipped of to the Americas centuries ago. Note: I am an Ashanti -from Ghana - and I submitted this response on a desktop computer at work here in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The photo connected to this link does not belong to me.

I have a friend who went to Gambia for a vacation. We’re Jamaicans, and he told me how the locals treated him very well. Big up the Gambian people.

@@ronnycush we play Jamaican 🇯🇲 music in our naming ceremony’s & parties 🎉. That’s how we love ❤️ them fr

Pampae also attributes to sex in Akan /Twi language

I would be first in line even if I’d have to wait in line for 48 hours.👌👌👌👌

Your African names says a lot about you as a person,

I would be first in line!!

@Marcia Simpson James I think he means would you be willing to give up the privilege of your european master's name to go back to the humble traditional African name your forefathers answered to.

@Marcia Simpson James Yes exactly. He means that name. Do you want it back ? Wouldn't you rather keep your master's name ?

Are you Jamaican? I am Nigerian, my greatest desire is to come to the Caribbeans,

True, our geneoloy has a lot of Nigerian DNA, Ghana, Congo, Cameroon, etc

Funny enough many of our grand ppl tend to have an African nickname for the loved ones they’re close to

@@tiffanybrown368 that's amazing!!

@@loveheals6184 my bro nickname is Shango (fighter/warrior), another name Chukuwu. My name name Kuhkuhm ( another name is for slim or slender). My first girl I’ll call her Oya or Yemoya…keeping our west African ancestors legacy going. Wish we would connect on deeper levels back to the motherland. As a Jamaican, it’s instilled in me that I’m of African descent and origins… so I’ll always put my best efforts in how I carry myself

@@tiffanybrown368sister to sister, I can't hide this smile 😀😁. This is beautiful. Shango tells me yuh nuh easy none atall😩🤣 and Chukwu means God.

I know Dukunu my grandmother used to make it in Jamaica, rap it in Banana leaf and boiled it.

We say pikin in Nigerian pidgeon English which a version of English original brought back to Africa by returning British former slaves from the West Indies to act as clerks for the newly colonised Nigeria

It's Nigeria pidjin and not Ghana. It's pikin

@@konfidojah-son6906 comot for there, pikin is a name of a child, in Ghanaian pidgin. Nonsense!

@@kofisam4106 y'all.arguing over a derogatory word pikin, pikni comes from picaninee which british used to describe, exclusively, black children as if they were sub human. I hate that word !

@@kofisam4106 see this ewu +ode, does Ghanaians speak pidjin? Everything you want to claim, Ghanaians trying to speak Nigeria pidjin for thousand years and they still can't. Do you know how the word pikin came about. Most of the pidjin you speak is naija pidjin. You guys think pidjin is just about breaking English down, there's so much secret to pidjin. If you're not Nigeria you don't know what pidjin is. Ghanaians try to copy but can't get it right because you people don't know what pidjin is and how we create the words. We Nigeria don't even have time for English anymore, we're promoting our pidjin to the world. Ghanaians trying to speak English and not pidjin. Liberia has their broken like pidjin also, but Sierra Leon and Cameroon created their broken from Nigeria pidjin which is cool, not like Ghanaians trying to copy everything Nigeria but yet can't get it right. Banko brains 🧠 🤣

This is interesting. The Akans use the same word "susu" for joint effort to save money or one person making efforts to save money.

@@baffourboaten9402 Really? I had no idea. No surprises though. I found out that some tribes in Ghana have links to the Igbo tribe. I'm especially keen to investigate the Ga-Adamgbe, because we have an ancestral Ga male. And another, a female ancestress named, Adamgbo. It will be an interesting study for me. What do you call chicken? We call it okuko or okuku. Waiting for your response because I found out that it is central in sacrifices in a few African tribes. Take care!

@@olisa633 Fascinating! I am an Akan and "chicken" is called "Akukor". We seem to have so much in common.

@@baffourboaten9402 I think the Baganda have a similar name for chicken. What it tells me is that more research needs to be done into our immediate past as Africans. Some of what we've been brainwashed to regard as myths, are anything but. In the meantime, what we've been sold as authentic world history is not. There is a deliberate attempt to conceal our history, because some people have trouble dealing with the reality of our contributions to civilization.

Many Caribbeans participate in Susu to this day.

Exactly. .I learnt Akans gave the name Jamaica ja/gya...ma ...yaka (meaning....maybe we are not coming come hack) ....to the motherland. The British may have turned it to Jamaica because all the gya in Ghana are written as Ja

This is so refreshing. There is so much significant history confirming the connectivity of a people explaining a practice an yes, silencing misinformation. Good stuff, Shan. Keep it coming.

Abioquita is derived from a town called Abeokuta in Ogun state Nigeria. They are Yoruba people

Great information! Although the right term is "Enslaved (people from) Nigerians"...not Nigerian Slaves.

@@donjazzy5510 Who is Nago? We have a place called Naggoes Head in Jamaica. We were told that Yoruba's named it after Nago. However, I do not know who Nago is😂🤣

​@@rqubedrqubed1634 Hey who is Nago??? 🤣 You are wanted in this RU-vid comment section.🤣🤣🤣 Nago show yourself!!! 😂

Thats my problem with the language. There is no standard way of spelling . People spell the words anyway. As long as them get the sound..for example i want to say look here. I could write "koo ya " "ku yah"..or luk ya. Those kinda things. Fact is patwa/ patois harder fi rite dan fi talk. I also think its the most expressive language like for example .. fenkeh fenkeh. Poto poto,and mauga. Certainly one of the best language that is not recogonised i think. Wanda y di hatarities nah deal wid it . See i might need some corrections in my spellings

Thank you 🙌

Not mixed with Spanish but the word Maroon comes from Spanish Cimarrones. They more likely mixed with indigenous people or at least adopted some of their culture and craft..jerk is said to be a fusion between African and Taino/Arawak methods Introduced by thr Maroons

Thé first wave of ´maroons ‘ were enslaved people left from the Spaniards, they just left them on the island. Spaniards got Atleast some of their captured from Slavic region. This is where the original word ‘slave’ comes from, the Slavic. Those people mixed with the aboriginal/ Taino who eventually mixed with the Africans who came along later.

There are also traces of Celtic words in Jamaican Patios. We tend to lump all the Europeans in together and forget that the Scottish and Irish are Celtic peoples with a seperate language from the the English. I believe the word "nae" pronounced "naa" i

As in, "mi nae go." The Scottish speech pattern is reminiscent of Jamaican Patios.