"Jamaican" meaning in Jamaican Creole

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Adjective

IPA: /d͡ʒʌˈmʲeːkan/, /d͡ʒaˈmʲeːkan/
Head templates: {{head|jam|adjective|head=Jamaican}} Jamaican, {{jam-adj}} Jamaican
  1. Jamaican
    Sense id: en-Jamaican-jam-adj-VpsK5~ZE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Jamiekan, Jumiekan

Noun

IPA: /d͡ʒʌˈmʲeːkan/, /d͡ʒaˈmʲeːkan/ Forms: Jamaican dem [plural], Jamaican [quantified]
Head templates: {{head|jam|nouns|10=|head=Jamaican}} Jamaican, {{jam-noun}} Jamaican (plural Jamaican dem, quantified Jamaican)
  1. Jamaican Categories (topical): Nationalities Related terms: Jamaica
    Sense id: en-Jamaican-jam-noun-VpsK5~ZE Disambiguation of Nationalities: 0 100 Categories (other): Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header, Jamaican Creole entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header: 44 56 Disambiguation of Jamaican Creole entries with topic categories using raw markup: 28 72
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Jamiekan, Jumiekan

Inflected forms

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          "english": "That's a normal Jamaican thing.",
          "text": "A normal Jamaican ting dat.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "[…] Girl, are you sure you're Jamaican? […]",
          "ref": "2019, Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain: Longlisted for the Giller Prize 2019 (in English)",
          "text": "[…] Yuh sure yuh a Jamaican gyal? […]",
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      "ipa": "/d͡ʒʌˈmʲeːkan/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/d͡ʒaˈmʲeːkan/"
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      "_dis1": "50 50",
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    },
    {
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          "english": "I must say (to you all) that I'm a Jamaican.",
          "text": "Mi haffi tell unnu dat mi a Jamaican.",
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        {
          "english": "[…] nothing in the world is better than when Jamaicans attempt to speak eloquently […]",
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      "ipa": "/d͡ʒʌˈmʲeːkan/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/d͡ʒaˈmʲeːkan/"
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          "ref": "2019, Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain: Longlisted for the Giller Prize 2019 (in English)",
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    {
      "ipa": "/d͡ʒaˈmʲeːkan/"
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        {
          "english": "[…] nothing in the world is better than when Jamaicans attempt to speak eloquently […]",
          "ref": "2005, Mervyn Morris, Making West Indian Literature, page 80",
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      "ipa": "/d͡ʒʌˈmʲeːkan/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/d͡ʒaˈmʲeːkan/"
    }
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      "word": "Jamiekan"
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    {
      "word": "Jumiekan"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Jamaican Creole dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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