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Jamaican Patois Wikipedia

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Proposal summary
Language details: Jamaican Patois (Jumiekan Patwa, jam ISO 639-3) Editing community: User:Kanzler31 (P) User:Mkratz User:Hroobjartr User:Hazard-SJ (N) User:Yocahuna (N) List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language. Relevant pages: development wiki project External links: The Jamaican Language Unit Langwij Jumieka
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• Number of speakers: 3,100,000 Speakers
• Locations spoken: Jamaica, Costa Rica, Panama, United States, UK, San Andrés (Colombia)
• Related languages: Nigerian Pidgin, English, Belizean Kriol, Cameroon Krio

Jamaican Patois is a Creole language spoken in Jamaica. It has more than 2,000,000 speakers in Jamaica and large immigrant speaking communities in Costa Rica and Panama. This Wikipedia would be well maintained. Also, 53% of the Jamaican population have access to the internet. And probably more in immigrant communities in Costa Rica, Panama, the UK and the United States.

Arguments in favor

• 'Support' The wiki would grow due to a large number of speakers. --Kanzler31 01:48, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
• 'Support' This language is spoken in Jamaica (among all levels of society), and in expat commnuities all over the world. It would also encourage a wealth of information about Jamaica, the Caribbean, Jamaican peoples' perspective on things and Jamaican issues to Wikipedia. This would then encourage their translation (via direct and TOTW) to other WPs. fr33kman ^{t - c} 01:11, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
• 'Support' This language would also benefit from it's Wikipedia existence. Forums, e-mail exchange and social networking websites are helping it to gain ground as a literary language. Wikipedia would help standardize the written form of Jumiekan Patwa. --Hroobjartr 15:08, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
• 'Support' Many Jamaicans (and non-Jamaicans) use the English Wikipedia without even noticing. Many non-Jamaicans also speak the Jamaican Patois (Jumiekan Patwa) or Creole and having this may allow even more people to help make the language more "firm". Hazard-SJ 06:14, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
• Support I think it can be approved.Md. Farhan 14:04, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
• Support per above----Andrijko Z. 19:38, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support. Surprised it hasn't already been created a long time ago. -- OlEnglish ^(Talk) 15:54, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
• Support - As an American who lived in Jamaica as a child, I'd like to see Patwa standardized, and this would go a long way to help to achieve that. - BilCat 22:12, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
• Support - The orthography is being established and more people, Jamaicans especially, are becoming literate in their own language. A Jamaican Wikipedia would support and strengthen this. --Yocahuna 01:15, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Other discussion

Any localization efforts? Kanzler31 19:39, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

At the moment, the required localization has been done. Efforts should now be focused on content (Incubator test wiki). SPQRobin (talk) 21:56, 7 March 2011 (UTC)