Jamaican Patois

English-based creole spoken in and around Jamaica; it additionally takes influence from various African languages, particularly Akan

dialect of Jamaican Creole spoken in Limón Province on the Caribbean Sea coast of Costa Rica

variety of English spoken in the Cayman Islands

Iyaric, also called Dread Talk or Rasta Talk, is a form of language constructed by members of the Rastafari movement through alteration of vocabulary. When Africans were taken into captivity as a part of the slave trade, English was imposed as a colonial language. In defiance, the Rastafari movement created a modified English vocabulary and dialect, with the aim of liberating their language from its history as a tool of colonial oppression. Iyaric sometimes also plays a liturgical role among Rastas, in addition to Amharic and Ge'ez.