19.3303, Media: News Reviews in Jamaican Creole

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Subject: 19.3303, Media: News Reviews in Jamaican Creole

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Date: 16-Oct-2008
From: Andre Sherriah < thejamaicanlanguagecompany at gmail.com >
Subject: News Reviews in Jamaican Creole

 

	
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:01:41
From: Andre Sherriah [thejamaicanlanguagecompany at gmail.com]
Subject: News Reviews in Jamaican Creole

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Dear all,

Akshan Taak, is a Jamaican Language company (JLC) production done in
association with the Jamaican Language Unit
(http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/jlu/index.htm).

It is a news commentary program done solely in Jamaican (More commonly referred
to as Patwa or Jamaican Creole), which reports on how the media covers the news
relevant to Jamaica and Jamaicans in general.

Subtitles are also written in the standardized writing system for Jamaican.
This is the modified Cassidy, LePage writing system for Jamaican Creole.
Do enjoy, subscribe and spread the word.

For episodes of Akshan Taak please go to YouTube and type in 'Akshan Taak'. 

For more information on JLC, please visit
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/jlu/index.htm

Respectfully,

Andre Sherriah
PhD Candidate
Linguistic
University of the West Indies (Mona) 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics







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