# Jamaican

Pronunciation: say "juh-MAY-kuhn" /d͡ʒəˈmeɪkən/

## Adjective

1. Coming from or relating to Jamaica, its people, or its language.
   - Simple: Relating to Jamaica, its people, or its way of speaking.
   - _The festival celebrated Jamaican food, music, and dance._
   - _His grandmother kept many Jamaican traditions alive at home._

## Noun

2. A person who comes from Jamaica or has Jamaican family roots.
   - Simple: Someone who comes from Jamaica or whose family does.
   - _As a proud Jamaican, she flew the flag at every match._
   - _The team's fastest sprinter is a Jamaican from Kingston._
3. The creole language native to Jamaica.
   - Simple: The creole language spoken by many people in Jamaica.
   - _At family gatherings everyone slips into Jamaican, the island's creole._
   - _The novelist wrote the dialogue in Jamaican to capture how the villagers really spoke._
4. The variety of English spoken in Jamaica, keeping standard English grammar under distinctive local pronunciation and vocabulary.
   - Simple: The everyday form of English used by people in Jamaica.
   - _The announcer's Jamaican kept standard English grammar beneath a strong local accent._
   - _In court, witnesses give testimony in Jamaican, the island's standard English, rather than broad creole._

## Origin

Formed from the place name Jamaica combined with the suffix -an.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/jamaican (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).