Bocas del Toro Creole | |
Nativename: | Panamanian Patwah |
Also Known As: | Río Abajo Creole |
States: | Panama |
Date: | 2000 |
Familycolor: | Creole |
Fam1: | English creole |
Fam2: | Atlantic |
Fam3: | Western |
Fam4: | Jamaican Patois |
Linglist: | jam-pan |
Isoexception: | dialect |
Glotto: | none |
Ietf: | jam-PA |
Bocas del Toro Creole, or Panamanian Patwah, also called Río Abajo Creole, is a dialect of Jamaican Patois, an English-based creole, spoken predominantly in the Bocas del Toro Province and the Río Abajo district of Panama City. It is similar to Central American varieties such as Limonese Creole. It does not yet have the status of an official language. It was pejoratively known as "guari-guari."[1]