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Jamaica: Language & Development

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco

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Read this post in Esperanto , Italiano, Español, Ελληνικά, русский, Aymara
Posted 23 November 2013 2:12 GMT

Jamaica needs to be declared the bilingual state it is asap.

Annie Paul thinks that “half of Jamaica’s problems stem from its linguistic identity crisis, insisting its mother tongue is English when a huge proportion of the population can only speak Patois.”

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