Where Did The Jamaican Accent Come From?
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Same with Barbados. The Irish were slaves, btw. You failed to mention that. Many were kidnapped from Ireland for no other reason, than to be slaves in the British Caribbean.
The big influx of African slaves to Jamaica and other British colonies in the New World didn't come about, until Britain entered the African slave trade in 1715.
Passion beats education any day. Besides, the more educated tend to lose touch with how an ordinary person enters the subject.
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I live in the UK. In the 70's some Irish people from Belfast, came to live in our neighbourhood. No one could understand a word they spoke. All except for us Jamaicans. Our bond was immeasurable. 😊
Cool
And oddly both like guiness
Or drink Stout rather
@@snifcompanyculturemediat.v7979 Mainly Clarendon and yes, our father's would walk across the road to indulge in a Guiness or three. ☺ 🇯🇲 🇮🇪
Original Irish were black
What makes it more interesting is how Jamaican has influenced Slang in alot of hoods in the US , UK and canada
Yes
@@Arrowdem1 no..toronto in canada and brooklyn in NY
Fax, bare jaamicans in Toronto including my family.
@@yaboy1689 im not even jamaican and i know this. Im british congolese but A. I grew up DEEP into NY hip hop and the deeper you dig into brooklyn that JA influence flatbush can i get a beef patty and some coco bread influence is REALLY there from the 80s n pervasively so 😂 not to mention busta rhymes, heavy d (not sure if hes from brooklyn) plus prominent NY brooklyn street figures alongside african american ones, the rapper biggie and more other individuals being an integral part of the brooklyn community. And then growing up in Urban UK like i did the jamaican influence has been so strong on all blacks (even british asians in a few cities will greet you with WA gwan? 😃 n thats been going on for possibly last 2 DECADES lol) and pervasive you couldnt avoid it even if you wanted to..youd at least develop some jamaican knowledge n sensibility sensitivity about you n a few patois words would feature in your informal regular chat. Irie..one love lol
Especially this new school southern hiphop. Very Caribbean sounding
🇮🇪🤝🇯🇲 I met many Jamaicans when I moved to London, many of which are my great friends today and jamaican women are gorgeous
You want to see gorgeous come Jamaica 👍😆
Some of you are so desperate its embarrassing !! Emancipate your self from mental slavery , non but ourselves can free our minds.... Bob Marley.
Thirsty AF
@@hillieduvalier fam I know your not taking about me..hell no
@@XPXhumble or you..all what I said was facts
I'm Jamaican and I found out the Irish accent influences when I could understand Irish speakers😂. When I was in my 20's
Same, my great grandfather is Irish which is cool.
@Jessenia Colon Rasta put Jamaica on the map. Without Bob we would be invisible
@Jessenia Colon and you sound ignorant. Bob helped pushed the foundation for Jamaican music to evolve and gain prominence as well as promote our culture. People may not know Jamaica, but they definitely know Bob Marley and that's how they know Jamaica. No need for the name calling.
Your so right I realize we sound the same.
Yeah i heard 'Irie' and 'wah gwaan' are Irish phrases
As a Jamaican, I've ALWAYS wondered why our accent sounds a bit similar to the Irish's . Now I know why
I recognized the similarity a long time ago. And I researched it. Yup
Right?! Same here!! Who knew 🤷🏾♀️😂
@@sanyakennedy1689 yes it was so obvious when I got a lil older.
Colonialism
Yea, especially the Cork accent.
As an actual Irish person born and raised in Ireland (not an Irish American) I always wondered why I could understand the Jamaican accent so easily 🤣 now I get it
The hidden truths of our past, shaped under the influence of Oliver Cromwell, are now coming to light. It's fascinating to discover that Jamaicans possess a unique genetic tapestry, with about 25% Irish lineage interwoven with other ethnicities. This blend has been a defining characteristic since the early days of British rule in Jamaica. The Irish influence has left an indelible mark on the Jamaican people, contributing to our distinctiveness. This might even explain the extraordinary sprinting prowess of Jamaicans, suggesting a possible link to our Irish heritage. So, where do we truly hail from? It's a thought-provoking question indeed. Let's embrace this rich heritage with pride and love for all, because every culture and every person counts. Jamaican identity, in its essence, is a celebration of diversity and unity. ONE LOVE!
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@@bryerstonewebdatamedia That 25 percent is not accurate. The vast majority of Blk Jamaicans have African DNA. The DNA is over 95 percent African based on recent tests. This can be verified online.
I'm Irish from county Cork.. What makes you think our people in America are less Irish than us in Ireland? I'm glad I acknowledge and respect all our people around the world and don't make them feel less Irish just because they were not born in Ireland there is so much Irish history in America and I have traveled to every state in America and seen the strong Irish history and how proud Irish Americans are to be Irish stop trying to make Irish Americans seem less Irish... I welcome all Irish no matter where they come from.. Céad Mile Failte 🇮🇪☘️
As an Irishman born in Cork I'm ashamed of how you make our people seem less Irish because they were not born in Ireland..
As someone who has 2/3rds Irish ancestry and hates the Cromwells with a flaming passion, the history of the Irish in Jamaica was something I did not know. Thanks for that!
Look into it. We are very similar
Watch the documentary here on youtube called the black Irish.. Its all about the Irish in the Caribbean. Very Interesting !!.
I'm from Ireland and it would be fair to say that Cromwell is utterly despised in Ireland. The ironic thing is that Cromwell was a republican and anti-monarchist, which are important ideas in Irish nationalism.
The big connection is...The British Empire tried to destroy cultures, languages, people...and that is why so many people around the World hate the Brits...not the Welsh or Scottish per say but The English...look at what they did ...look at Palestine because of them, The 6 Counties of the North of Ireland , India etc etc. The flag is not known as " The Butchers Apron " for nothing.
Also a mixter of a Scottish accent.
Jamaican immigrants have heavily influenced modern British slang
@no one No its actually quite true. Jamaicans influenced modern British slangs. Jamaica don't have much Britains living here to adapt their slangs. A lot of Jamaicans migrated to Britain
@no one Half of the slangs used in Britain is the result of the migration of the Wind-rush generation of West Indians (mostly Jamaicans)
Exactly
Facts!! But they'll keep that quiet though
And Canadian slangs as well. Obviously its due to the influx of immigrants to these areas over the years
As a Jamaican, nice video and well explained (: btw Taino is pronounced *tie-e-no*
Some pronounce it taa-no
Do you live in JA
Thank you my love 😘
@@rrush Its the Jamaican/ pronunciation
The rule of 2 vowels hun
I'm Jamaican and I found out about the Irish influence on our language about 15 years ago, when I heard an Irish man pronounce the number three as "Tree". Just like us Jamaicans pronounce it. I found it interesting that the Irish pronounce many words the same way we do as Jamaicans. After realizing this I did a deep dive into it, doing extensive research, and found out that the Irish were brought to Jamaica as slaves before the Africans. Just like you stated in the video. The history is so mind blowing! Good job!
I always thought the accent came from west africa. Ghanaians and Nigerians also say "tree"
@@wilts8965 Oh yes, as the video pointed out the Jamaican accent had many influences. British, West African, and Irish.
Because even the Irish and Scottish people had US as SLAVES!!!!
But some Irish ppl forget that. At one point some Islands had 75% Irish slaves.
@@wilts8965 I have Liberian friends (West Africa) and they pronounce words in English with an accent fascinatingly similar to how a Jamaican would.
My favorite little-known cultural aspect of Jamaica, is the ethnically Chinese native-born people there. Fantastic foods cross-pollinated as well ❤️
Yes, there are a lot of Chinese and East Indian people in the Caribbean! They came as indentured laborers.
@@3amDayDreamer thank you for the additional context I neglected to include. Humans have created beautiful art and culture, and we've also visited abject horror upon other living beings...
Yeah it’s true, I have Chinese and Amerindian in my blood
@@3amDayDreamer that's sad
Basically most West Indian history class: African came as slaves, Amerindians get killed and got diseases from the conquerors, and Chinese and East Indian were indentured laborers. I’m of African and East Indian descent.
I’m Irish and I didn’t know this at all until now. Now I know why I love Jamaica and their people so much.
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I’m Jamaican-British with an Irish surname and came to this video after being obsessed with Ireland over the last two months now lol.
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I did Caribbean history in school and I didn’t learn about the Irish influence in our country ,thank you so much for this video it explained a lot and I learnt so much 👊🏾💯
There is alot they didn't teach in Caribbean history classes.
I learnt it in 1 history class in high school and it wasn’t on any test, I would be surprised if anyone would remember it
Same!! I had no idea the Irish was there, no wonder I love the Irish accent so much! Omg
I mean they weren't really that influential in actual fact yes they were influenced but I think he plays it up way more that it deserves
@@micayahritchie7158 Well on the island of Montserrat there’s a whole group of Irish speaking black and white communities. As far as I know the story goes that the English brought Irish slaves to Montserrat who predominantly spoke Irish. Irish becoming the most widely spoken language, was then used by African slaves when they were brought to the island. I’m Irish. I remember our National tv channel having a documentary on this years and years ago
"Oliver Cromwell is hated in Ireland" - now that's an understatement. He inflicted untold suffering on the Irish people.
As a Jamaican I recognize our accents and phrases with Africans as well as Irish. Our accents are different based on which part of Jamaica we are from. The Irish influence comes out in certain churches. Also some of us say mader and fader 😁
Our sense of humor is definitely Irish. Jamaicans like to make songs about every day nuances and laugh at themselves.
I couldn't stop laughing when I visited Ireland and see how similar their sense of humor is to Jamaicans. In some areas on the island where there were strong Irish influences the older generation would tell stories bout fairies. I heard the same stories in Ireland. It was so funny.
The accent itself is not really influenced by African languages or accents but the vocabulary definitely is.
@@NK-vd8xi some of the sounds are a bit African
@@brigjay123 like?
@@NK-vd8xi you know how Nigerians sound with their English, there are similarities in some sounds. I can't pick anything but there seems to be some influence. Just like how there is some irish influence in American English. While it is definitely not pronounced , there's some ifluence you can detect.
Ireland: "Same colonial oppressor?"
Jamaica: "Same colonial oppressor!"
Aye, now the Irish government are oppressing it's own people.. England was probably less cruel tbh
@@IrishRose This is such a dumb comment I can't even begin to explain. If you are Irish, learn your history and stop talking nonsense.
@UCEElnAPLMrrI1n0xUIw75Lw Can I just say linear projections of population growth make no sense. Otherwise they would be 200% of the population but 2100 obvious nonsense. Secondly the reason Ireland (and all of Europe really) needs immigrants is that the native people aren't having enough children and it would be worse without the immigration. Just look at Japan completely unable to support its pensioners. I don't know anything about anything else you talked about. But with that's said what I do know is that Irish people will never be a minority because they government will not allow and indefinite amount of immigration. Maybe revive your language and have more children then you'll be able to support your population and then you can discourage migration by not speaking English. Seems simple
@@davidkav86 While I agree that the Irish government doesn’t give a shit about us. I cannot help but agree and say that it is not one bit near as bad as what the Brits did to us
@@IrishRose bahahahaha. English were less cruel??? Brush up on your history
As a Jamaican this is correct. Thank for shedding light on the history of this island. Keep up the good work.
You’re accurate and resourceful! Honestly you can’t help but notice Irish intonation. I think Akan is a strongly preserved tradition kept in Jamaica ( they still use the words from that language and even some food preparation). I am Nigerian American and can recognize some of our language in places like Cuba and Brazil. Thanks!
Indeed. Very strong Yoruba influences in Cuba and Brazil.
Jamaican patois is clearly West African pidgin English. You are Yoruba and Yoruba is not really a pidgin English speaking zone so you dont see that patois is pidgin or creole.
08falti74: from various documentaries and written articles I understand that the Yoruba culture is very strong in black Brazil.. Bahia etc..
As a Jamaican descendant with a (maiden) Irish last name, I’m so thankful I came across this video. Growing up, I have always wondered how my family ended up with our last name. I had NO IDEA about the history of the Irish people and the role they played in Jamaican history! This video has taught me more about not only my culture but my identity as well! I can’t wait to dive deeper into more research to learn more! Thanks for sharing
Now when you do your research realize that the native Gaelic Irish are different than the colonizing Ulster/Scots. The native Irish were basically prisoners indentured servants sent over by Cromwell like in the video. The UlsterScots came over to the Americas not as indentured servants but as colonizers.
@@jgg59 The Scoti was the term originally used to describe the Irish - the Scoti were literally Irish. It was this tribe originally from Ireland that settled Scotland around 500BC.
I love seeing comments like this. Happy researching! 😊
You're welcome to visit Ireland one day!
I knew there was something going on when I could understand irish people talking 🇯🇲
And they pronounce words just like us.
Frl as a Jamaican I understand Irish and Scottish people perfectly
I knew there is a link because there are many Jamaicans with Scottish and Irish last names. Like McPherson. I didn’t know the language was so impactful though.
@@MoJo-ng5ot My great grandmother is Evans, my children surname is McFarlane, I am Lewis. Still trying to figure out if I am Scottish or British.
As a Trinidadian 🇹🇹 ive always wondered how people never understood the irish haha. Caribbean accents is so interesting to learn about where our ways came from
Trinidad doesn't even have Irish influences though, only a few which is Jamaica, Montserrat, and Barbados.
@IyamSoRaya Sigh. You may not be aware of this, but the Irish accent is very diverse. Regional differences in Irish accent can be heard. The Irish that went to JA are likely from a different region from the those that went to Trinidad. Why do you think they both have similar sing song intonations?
Anyone remember Grim from "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy"? He had a Jamaican accent.
Also that show has my favorite Christmas special. "Billy and Mandy save Christmas". Shame there was no Dracula in it.
YESSS I USED TO LOVE THAT SHOW!!!
@@GobliMobli Did you hear that the creator Maxwell Atoms pitched a tv movie to CN earlier this year but CN rejected it because they thought no one remembered/knew the show? Real shame.
Grim saying Badmon.
He did not have a Jamaican accent Jamaicans don't sound like that. He adopted Jamaican mannerisms and put on a voice
So interesting! I'm actually Akan myself, I knew about the Irish influence on the Jamaican accent but hadn't heard much about the Akan influence specifically, will listen out for it.
You're Ivorian?
I believe Akan is from Ghana! Also lot of Nigeria people lived there.
@@Tu51ndBl4d3 I'm part Ivorian and part Ghanaian but with a British accent which won't help with any investigating...
@@sophiawilson8696 Akans are found in both Ivory Coast and Ghana and won’t be found in Nigeria at all unless they’re recent immigrants. These borders don’t really mean anything as many of the same people are found in different African countries.
Jamaicans primarily came from the Gold Coast - Ivory Coast, Nigeria and most from Ashanti region in Ghana..
Many words in Patois are from TWI.. foods, customs, and children stories like Anancy are straight from Akan traditions!
Today, 2021, there are Jamaica day celebrations in Ghana, you should check it out
Someone please link this to Chet Hanks, He could learn a lot about his heritage from this video.
As a Jamaican this is well explained I love hearing about the history of Jamaica my favorite subject is history so I find this fascinating 😁😁
Fun fact: Jamaica was once a Spanish country before it was colonize by british thats why some word are like spanish
I remember telling some people that Jamaica could have been a Latin or Hispanic country because of that Spanish history.
@@CrowdPleeza But they were colonized by the British for the most part.
@@joshedwards7628 Yup 1655
The Spanish influence is downplayed so much and I am not sure why. So much of the language and food is Spanish derived. How many Irish words are in Jamaican patois or what Irish food, apart from Irish Moss (which the Irish ate and didn’t drink) has influenced Jamaican food? Yet from Spain we got cook up rice (paella); Saltfish (bacalau); tonic wine (sherry); fritters (croquettes); from the language we got vamoos (vamos); me na like (no mi gusta); the letters v and b being interchangeable (eg: because and vex) and all the place names (ocho rios; savannah La mar, etc)
@@joshedwards7628 true, but under the British, the slaves heavily outweighed the white folk, which is why there were so many slave revolts, why punishments were so severe in Jamaica and why Jamaicans, along with Cubans and Haitians, were able to keep so much of their African identity
The Irish accent is something that always stood out to me about Jamaican. I always wondered how it got there.
@6.32 "Driven from the mainland, to the heart of the Caribbean", love that Bob Marley reference to Buffalo Soldier!
You obviously don’t know. The mainland is America. The tribe is yamasse. They are from the Gold Coast of America.
I went to school in uk and was only one of two blacks in the school in 1964. There was only one Irish girl and we formed a bond. As 1) I understood her accent and 2) our culture at home were very simular. I was aware of the Irish slavery in Jamaica.
Thanks for calling it what it was , Irish slavery and not "indentured servitude" like a lot of people do....
@@Sean-sn9ld the Irish actually got paid. Even if it was a very small amount. The Africans were forced to work the fields for nothing and were in chains. You can’t really compare.
@@tatum635 there was Irish slaves in the Caribbean. And there was also Irish indentured servants in the Caribbean. It happened, its part of the story, it's almost like some people think black people are the only people who treated like that or something...
And for example look at the island of Monserat ,spelling might be off but that island is very much so black and Irish.
Even "You Dig?" comes from the Irish "Án dtuigeann tú?" (On Diggin Too?) which means "do you understand?" or even "do you know what I mean?"
I'm not tryna say Irish people had the same experience as Black people did back in the "good old days" but there definitely has been a lot of culture crossing over the years in the Americas.
And yeah I know there were Irish-american slave owners but that's a whole other different story lol
@@Sean-sn9ld there are thousands of articles on google disproving what you are saying. Most ppl that make the claim that some Irish were slaves are neo nazis and white nationalists.
@@tatum635 there's also thousands of articles "disproving" the Holocaust.
Irish people were sold and forced to work in Caribbean plantations, it happened
I was about to say you plugged buffalo soldier in your script. That's awesome
Never knew “(Kwaku Ananse)story” is also being told in Jamaica 🇯🇲…In Ghana (Kwaku) is Wednesday born and usually associated as bad character..We from Ghana deeply love our sister country Jamaica and can’t wait to visit Jamaica some day…”Thank You” (Medaase) (Akan language) 🇬🇭 🇯🇲
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I love tge way u explained it about my country.....🇯🇲 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 🇯🇲
@Jessenia Colon u got a point
So you didn't know those thing about your country before or you're just tickle that its coming from them what you should of already known??
Yay!! He mentioned my tribe! Akan!! 😍😍😍 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
there's a very popular video of a White Jamaican man being interviewed by his daughter and he sounds a lot like an Irishman
He is jamaican and I am jamaican as well
that's because he actuaolly is. if she sounds irish.
Not just any Brits, but northerners and Scots. That, along with the Irish, is the European aspect of the Jamaican accents.
And usually, a language/creole inform an accent, so as Patois developed so did the speech pattern. Jamaican English is built in large part on Patois. (Think about it: Irish accents developed as English was superimposed on an Irish-language substrate, and Welsh accents as English was superimposed on a Welsh-language substrate.)
I'm one of the 25% that has some Irish ancestry (as well as Scottish ancestry) in addition to the largely West African. :)
um... what i hear is mostly An ashanti/akan flavor in the accent that's dominant . Its not difficult to track the source as modern day Twi speakers use a similar alphabet and phonetics that is central to jamaican accent. all other accents are sprinkles .
eh it's bit of a myth that Irish English comes from Irish language.
As a Jamaican, unexpected but grateful 🙏🏾
Danish, a sexy accent?! I think you made all swedes watching this died from laughter
I assume people think this because of those famous Danish actors. 🤔
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
you did an awesome job educating the masses about jamaica.. cheers!!🍻
if you listen to how Nigerians and other west africans speak English esp Pidgin English theres alot of heavy similarities...even the mannerisms and body language.Why are people forgetting that their African ancestors came with an accent nd it was passed from generation to generation..it was also probably influenced to some degree by other ethnicities within Jamaica.
@@blu3i The Irish link is played up in this video. They're not that significant to Jamaican soeech
@@blu3i Listen to Jamaicans in what context and how? Who what were they talking about and who was the audience
@@blu3i I've never ever heard a good Jamaican accent in any non Jamaican media.
People are self haters and love proximity to white people
We definitely have influences from Ireland 🇮🇪 🇯🇲 we dead a$$ sound a like with some slangs and can understand each other while others won't understand us.
Hi. Jamaican here. Great work. Subscribed.
I’m not that surprised about the Irish influence in Jamaica. I was born and raised in Ireland until I was 12 and have Nigerian parents and have been living in the uk for about 9 years now. When people are not assuming I’m from the US or Canada they will assume I’m from Jamaica
Dope flag, wonderful weather, strong democratic traditions by all observers, chill vibes. Who doesn't love Jamaica?
"chill vibes"
“Chill vibes” laughs in gang war
@@StarscreamSupreme Oh right, I forgot Jamaica is the ONLY place where organized crime has ever existed. Piss off.
@@samwill7259 I’m Jamaican and I find this comment offensive
@@samwill7259 Oh, don't forget Homophobia as well.
A few other Caribbean island nations & island territories have a similar history of Irish & Scottish "criminals" being sent there as slave labor too. From my understanding St Lucia, Barbados, St Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, & British Virgin Islands.
They were Indentured Servants. Africans and Amerindians were the only actually slaves. Later on Chinese and East Indians were brought as indentured servants later on as well. It's actually a misconception that the Irish we're slaves I actually wish he would have specified that because it's not true. Btw I'm a Caribbean person from Grenada with some Irish ancestry due to that servitude and of course mostly African because of the slave trade.
One of the reasons I wanted to clear that up because there was still a racial heirarchy system and while the Irish, Chinese and Indians were treated awful the Africans were still at the bottom of the list and the slavery in the Caribbean was some of the most brutal in the Americas. And you see that heirarchy played out today where the descendants of the Irish, Chinese, and Indians per Capita have higher standings in the islands.
My great grandmother and her family came freely from Ireland to live in Jamaica. Some went back to Ireland.
There was not Criminal Irish and Scottish when they went to the Caribbean they send the criminal Australia you do not know anything about the Caribbean history with the Irish and the Scottish
@@JD-ny3vz they receive no wages although they were called indentured. They were poor and basically sent to the island because they were considered undesirables. They were not enslaved like the Africans but they did work for free.
Yep! I learned this years ago when wondering why my Jamaican is dad named Fitzgerald, likes a drink and a smoke and speaks like he’s from the outer depths of Cork! Funny thing is that we’ve always had Irish friends/family we’ve just gravitated towards too they just feel so familiar, like home.
My surname is Feurtado, the root is Portuguese but it is a Jamaican name (in Portugal it is usually spelt Furtado). Never quite understood Portugal's place in Jamaican history
To answer that question, after the slave trade was abolished as well as slavery in British colonies around the world, Britain was still in need of labour and since they could not use slave labour anymore, they established indentured labour "contracts" with people from other countries so they could come to Jamaica and work for pay. MOST of those indentured labourers were Indian and Chinese, however a good chunk of them were also Portuguese. So that would be how portugal comes into Jamaican history :) hope that helps
The jews that live in jamaica have roots in portugal and spain
Madeirans came to Jamaica as indentured labourers after slavery
indentured servants
@@jaez-stayz that’s true for Guyana and Trinidad but not for Jamaica concerning the Portuguese. Portuguese surnames in Jamaica (ofter falsely identified as Spanish surnames in Jamaica) are from the early Sephardic Jewish settlers.
I Am A Jamaican And Was Excited Watching This Video Eventhou I Know My Country's History 🙏🏾🇯🇲❤💯
Thank You For This Video
Omg this makes so much sense! I went to a small festival concert last year in which there was an Irish band that performed that day. The main singer confused the hell outta me because I noticed that whenever he spoke, a lot of his words sounded Jamaican! I thought it was so weird to hear a native Irishman sound Jamaican since I've never heard Irish people speak in person before. I thought I was crazy for making that correlation between them, but I'm so glad that my suspicions about this are actually verified by this video! Thank you!
Interesting in Ireland, there is a slang word known as "Skanger" - a pejorative term used for Dubliners with thick accents from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Some say it has Jamaican origins, though I wonder did it travel from Ireland to Jamaica and then back again?
It Probably Did... There's A Large Percentage Of Irish Ancestry In Jamaicans (Due To Slavery & Indentred Servitude) Trenchtown Was A Gutter Build Over The Sewage Yards Owned By A Mr. Alfred Trench From Co. Wicklow... Bob Marley Was Said To Have Irish Ancestry
@@NoNameThoughtOfYet Bob Marley’s father was English, ethnically white.
An Irish woman told me that her father had pictures of himself as a child in Jamaica and he use to visit when she was young, but he never explained the connection
@@NoNameThoughtOfYet Who is an Afro Jamaican? I’m Jamaican my family not African. And slavery was employment not white pale faces with whips. White peoples were slaves too. Enslavement is the new employment. They never called us Afro Jamaicans. In the 1823 census, Jamaicans were labeled as Mulatto, Mustee, Mustifinna, White by Law, etc. no black no African. So where y’all get your ancestral data from because I use real genealogy not ancestry.com because I sent my dna and my dogs dna and they said my ancestry is European and my dog 25 percent European that’s fake. You guys need to go to the Jamaican national archives and search for your family. Because it shows that slaves coming from Africa was white slaves not black slaves. So if we Afro Jamaican that means we from west Africa or North Africa because they came as slaves too.
@@jemappellechow157 This is interesting! The whole “African slave trade” is suspect indeed!
really good video..love and respect from Jamaica
I'm Jamaican and I think our accent is quite amazing
I had a realization one day of how similar Irish accent and temperament was to the Caribbean . So cool. I love origins!
Yeah bro love dis yuh video keep it up 🤙🏾🇯🇲
Thank you. Well explained.
I lived in Jamaica when I was in high school and I learned more in this video than I did in Caribbean History class.
The Irish accent really gets around in the Americas. I know it has a lot of influence on the North American mainland but that's a cool fact about its influence on the Jamaican accent.
Really good episode!
Bless up yuh self @nameexplain nice content about Jamaica my home . big up every time
I'm Irish and I've always had really easy connections and got on great with any Jamaicans I've met over the years and actually just people from the Caribbean in general (a lot of my best friends relations are from Trinidad and used to come to Ireland a lot). Now here I was thinking it was just because they're lovely people and I didn't know they could be actually my cousins to!
Really good video I love it. However one fact you forgot to mention was that due to the rebellions of the maroon people and the fact that they didn't want the English to know of plans of the rebellions. They created a mixed language i.e. patois, which is a mixture of English and African words and phrases. This made the English not understand them properly hence became the language of the enslaved.
Ik he mentioned patois but this is just an insight into it's origins. 10/10 video btw hehe.
Very informative big up from yard 🇯🇲🇯🇲
As a Jamaican born person I am very impressed with the video and info in it. Good job
Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah was in Ireland last week in County Carlow where her physical therapist is based and she was interviewed on the RTÉ news, along with locals, and it dawned on me then that she had very similar sort of inflections and cadence as someone with a real west of Ireland country accent. Check out the accent of Montserrat in the Caribbean, they have a very obvious Irish accent, also the people of Newfoundland in Canada too
A lot depended too AFAIK on whether you got Norwegian Vikings or Danish Vikings, so the 'lilting' Munster esp. Cork /Kerry accent sounds like Jamaica. Newfoundland sounds like Waterford, much flatter.
@@diarmuidbuckley6638 V interesting
I am Jamaican and I struggle to differentiate between the accent of my countrymen and that of Montserratians. They are very similar.
@@damemarthafalker6738 it’s also striking that their the only other island in the Caribbean that sound similar to Jamaicans.
@@damemarthafalker6738 Vincentians too
People are often shocked at how diverse the influences are on Jamaica because most Jamaicans identify as black and look full black. However people are confusing genotype and phenotype. Phenotype is what you look like on the outside and what people use to categorize you. However your genotype is what tells your true history of where your ancestors have been. We all have many genes in our DNA that is not expressed in our phenotype. For example, this year all the Miss Universe contestants took Myheritage DNA tests to learn more about themselves. Out of the top 5 most genetically diverse contestants, three of them (British Virgin Islands, Curacao, Jamaica) were afro Caribbean women.
Awesome Video!
I learned about this years ago on a PBS program. Great to relearn it. 👍🏾
"You're from Jamaica? *Where* in Jamaica?"
"Right by the beach, BOIII!"
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@@_k_n_ that's dialogue from the movie 'Half Baked' with Chappelle, in case you don't recognize it without any additional context
In Cork, Ireland we are famous for saying " boy" as well
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Jamaican here, there is not one 'Jamaican accent'. You'd be surprised to hear variations of pronunciations even within a singular parish.
The more into the country or out the city you go, people start to 'talk bad' sometimes sounding like jibberish
@@DV-lr8ec It is not jibberish or 'talk[ing] bad'; they oftentimes are speaking another language - Patwa - with dialectical variations. Also, even within Kingston and St Andrew, you have people who speak 'Standardised Jamaican English' but the way they pronounce certain words and their lexicon is different from other parts of the capital.
i am glad to hear someone say it lol, I am from Portland and went to montego bay when i was 17, i struggled lol
@@bread90210 Я из Ямаики тоже. Почему твое имя на кириллице?
@@arleneaufdermauer8559 потому что я говорю по русски , и мне нравится все про Россия 😁
Amazing job 👌🏾
Thank you for this.
There were German influences as well. They even had a documentary about it. They were mainly in the parish of St Elizabeth. My stepdad is one of their descendants.
As a Jamaican born in Montego Bay, raised in Georgetown Washington DC, we come ,West Africa, most of us from Ghana Ashanti so I started learn more about Ashanti because our freedom fighter Queen Nanny brought all the way from ASHANTI. If you take a look at colours of our flag, the same colours of Ashanti flag, we adopted our flag colours flag ASHANTI kingdom and we are proud of that. ASHANTI, GHANA and other great west countries we got our influence from MAMA AFRICA, not from our white ENEMIES...LONG LIVE MAMA AFRICA and Her black people around the globe 🌍🇬🇭🇯🇲🇨🇮 🇬🇲🇳🇬🇹🇬🇧🇯🇸🇱🇱🇷🤜🏿🤛🏿
That's not true, most of us from Ghana, that's why there a lot of similarities between GHANA and JAMAICAN. If you come JA and you ask people walking om the streets which part African country we from, 90 percent will say GHANA, 5 percent will say Gambia, 15 will say Nigerian, I did that research for very long time
@askella A My friend is a Nigerian Igbo and he told me the majority of slaves to Jamaica came from Ghana only a very small percentage were Igbo.
@@redgoldgreen9960 You are quite correct and did your research well the majority of slaves to Jamaica came from Ghana.
I also did research and the biggest percentage of black Jamaican ancestors came from Ghana.
The highest percentage of Nigerian Igbo slaves went to Trinidad, Brazil and USA.
@askella A Do your research the slaves came from many tribes yes but there were large amount of a particular tribe that were shipped to certain countries. Ghanaians were the great majority that were shipped to Jamaican. Just like the Nigerian Igbo were the majority that were shipped to Trinidad.
Good job!
great stuff
One of My Ancestor's was from Kingston, Jamaica. He made his way to Australia in the 1800's where he settled and left many descendents.
It took me years to figure out why I love & feel Reggae songs until I did my family tree & discovered my heritage.
I remember my father using jamaican words like gwan/kwan.
I am hoping to visit Jamaica one day & find my Ancestors' families.
One Love...
Its only 4hours from America to Jamaica
@@shadowflame5953 America? They said Australia. That’s a lot further away!
Yes man you should , family is powerful
Yes, I'm in Australia.
i also saw australian cousins in my ancestry research, i could not make any connection lol
I’m Jamaican, my last name is Gaelic. BRYAN, with a Y which means it also had Welsh influence.
I'm still convinced Bob Marley is Welsh bless him ❤🎸
@@jillybe1873 Bob’s father was from the UK
Slave master name change that shit name
@@fivestar000 you are an idiot. The Irish were actually imported to Jamaica to work as slaves. This proves you didn’t listen the antiretroviral video dummy
@@ivorysteele they owned slaves as well. Change that name
Great video
Great job
I remember telling a boyfriend that it sounds like an Irish mix a bit. He told me that I was wrong. You can hear that singing-type bounce. We can also look at the history and the names.
Yes you right. Our accent came from the Irish and the Akan people of West Africa
If you ever watched that movie "Shottas", there's the white, low-level politician that the gangsters end up assassinating. He sounded Irish as hell...
you have done great with this annaylisist thanks for this...
You should be reminded that the Spanish also brought Africans to Jamaica who rebelled and escaped into the mountains and became known as the Maroons. These Maroons battled the British and won their freedom. The Irish came later as indentured labour. It is true that the Irish language is the closest to the Jamaican Patois ( Patwa ). Irish Town , streets named Grafton road , Killarney road , Lexington Ave and Antrim road are all popular in a section of east Kingston known as Vineyard Town.
The maroons were moors. They were not slaves they traveled with the Spanish. The moors are the ex rulers of Spain.
Doesn't make any sense thou, they would have to meet tainos up in the deep hills area, so they are repressing something here, I always remember hearing it and I did history in high school in 2016
The Spanish did brought slaves but not a large amount. The Spanish helped those same slaves to escape to the mountains and burn everything and even fought together when England invaded the island, funny isnt it?
@@cyrilsneer5957 stop reaching, moors are from north Africa above the sahara, nothing to do with Jamaica.
one group fought for freedom, the other group signed treaty to return captured slaves in exchange for peace . Portland maroons never signed such betrayal treaty.
I worked with alot of Africans and I overheard her talking to her daughter and she said" I soon come." I loved it and immediately saw the connection. As a Jamaican we say "Me soon come."
As far as the Irish, that explains Jamaican love for cornbeef and cabbage. Sometimes I find myself talking very proper and I guess that's the British. I can recall few teachers asking me to repeat myself then I catch myself
this is nothing unique, most former british colonies use similar language structures, some islands over the pacific near australia also nearly sound like thr jamaican accent
Love the video! You should play a clip of the language being spoken at the end of the video, was looking forward to it 😅
Well researched,I love Jamaica and Jamaican accent
The Jamaican Accent sounds ALOT like Pidgin English spoken across West Africa(Nigeria, Ghana). - Summer Aku has a whole video
I think most of our patois is from them with other countries involved.
Linguistic terminology here is super sketchy. But the history and general story is correct. In any case I must say Patwa is not significantly mutually intelligible with English and I never know what people mean when they say "the Jamaican accent". Because a lot of how Jamaicans speak in English is manufactured and Jamaican speech is very varied based on social background and context and I never know how much of that story outsiders know.
As to how Patwa is different from English. It uses words mostly based in English but the pronunciation of these words can vary wildly as they tend to match a West African phonology. For example the word for turn is pronounced like ton as that er/ur/or sound changes to an o sound and the word for think is pronounced like tink as that unvoiced th changes to a t and the word for little is pronounced like likkle as a tl sound changes to kl sound. Each of those might be manageable easily enough but it for example combines to do things like make the word for worthless sound more like wokliss and that probably isn't a very obvious word change. There are many other sound changes that add up to some pretty counterintuitive sounding English based words. Of course, many of us also know the "correct" way to say things and there's also stigma associated with the "bad pronounciation" which adds up to the huge variety in our speech.
But Patwa is way more than just pronounciation it's grammatically nothing like English and to explain this could take hours but a few things is that are big is that there are no conjugations or inflections. There is no inflectionally marked tense. He sang or he walked would be him sing or him walk. With the verb forms being identical to the present tense. There is no case marking in pronouns and possessive adjectives Mi= I me and my, him= he him his, we= we us our. Most Jamaicans also use the pronoun him gender neutrally that is him refers to females males and non-human living things. For some speakers him even replaces the use of it for non-living things. There's lot's more but this comment is long enough. Email me at patwamaterials@gmail.com if you want to know more
The way I laughed when you broke the use of “him....”. 100 % accuracy. Mi love mi people bad. 💗🇯🇲
It's potois pronounced patwah
he didnt claim they were mutually intelligible , and you do know that there is a general Jamaican accent, what do you mean you dont know. Whether you are uptown or downtown or country, you have the Jamaican accent, now vocabulary is where there is a difference. All those features and declensions you mention are features of various English dialects on the British isles.
@@bread90210 no British isles dialect uses gender neutral pronouns. No British isles dialect is tenseless. Where in the UK can you say I walk and it means I walked, I had walked, I have walked or I will walk depending on context? No British isles dialect completely lancks inflections. If it's even just the irregular verbs of to be and to go. Patwa doesn't have either of those inflected. And as I said didn't even scratch the surface with that. I'm not even saying he said it's mutually intelligible. What I am saying is that I don't generally know what people mean by "the Jamaican accent" beacuse Jamaicans don't speak one way so I don't know if they're referring to Patwa to Jamaican English some mixture of the two or just our pronunciation in which case are they familiar with the more out there pronunciations? I don't know so that's why it's unclear to me I'm not bashing him it's just that I watched this entire thing and I don't know what he's talking about
@@micayahritchie7158 so you're telling me that you could never identify a Jamaican by the way they speak 🙊 ? You sound posh and unexposed. Good arguments about the British isles btw.
Very well explain 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Proud Jamaican
My dad is from Jamaica and he recently gave me the Jamaica Patwa banner that was shown in the vid. That was a cool moment.
The Jamaican accent is very similar to A strong Cork accent in Ireland, probably most similar in the Northside of Ireland's second city... Mad😆..
this Irish guy sounds Jamican th-cam.com/video/V4OZmgu_KiY/w-d-xo.html
I was born in Barbados the Irish accent is heavily influential in our accent and our ancestry with some of us are half irish & half black and their is a fairly large Irish population in St.John
Very true! I have ancestry in Barbados.
@@Lonewolfwarrior111 Owen Hankey my fellow bajan brother 🇧🇧 lol that's cool if ever you get the chance take a vacation their you won't be disappointed 😉
@@BKLYN_TZU Will do my fellow Bajan fam. That is one place that's definitely on my bucket list. I have relations with the Hall and Ramsey families.
@@Lonewolfwarrior111 Owen Hankey oh okay definitely take a trip you will have a great time I went back in 2019 before all this madness that happened to the world stay safe my bajan brother 🙏
@@BKLYN_TZU Oh yeah, Definitely my brother. And yeah the pandemic ruined a lot of things. I am actually from Trinidad but my Bajan accent is on point which gets mistaken for an Irish/Scottish accent.
2:06 Freaking kudos for actually remembering to zoom in before taking a screenshot, something many TH-camrs with over a million subs sadly don't get.
Well done 👏
Can you please please do a video on the origin of the name Jamaica - the island in the Caribbean and Jamaica in Queens, New York.
The name Jamaica is derived from the Taino word “Xaymaca” or “the land of wood and water” for our many trees and natural rivers. 😃
Jamaica is a Taino name. America thief our name lol
There is also Nassau in NY too.
@@eileenwatt8283 there is also a Freeport and Kingston in NY too. But given that Jamaica is a native name I’m wondering if there is a connection between the two.
you didnt learn that in school ? Jamaica is from the original taino name xaymaca which means land of wood and water, Jamaica queens has nothing to do with our Jamaica, that (jamaica in queens) is also from a native american word
Very well done. As an Akan myself… I approve this video 🇬🇭
The majority of slaves in Jamaica did come from Ghana the evidence is true for example Jamaican dishes, their features their body frame. This is the reason so many Jamaicans visit Ghana and some even live there.🇬🇭🇯🇲
@@jenniferprince3153 I just hate to see ppl talk rubbish
@@Lifestylewithjada Learn Jamaican history why are you denying Ghana the (Akan) people are the descendant of afro Jamaicans. Yes there were some Igbo and Yoruba slaves which were a very small percentage in Jamaica.
Do more research before you start denying the ancestors of afro Jamaicans.
@@Lifestylewithjada Afro Trinidadians are mostly of Nigerian Igbo descend follow by Yoruba and Kongo there where no Akan people in the group that landed in Trinidad. By my observation afro Trinidadians do look very similar to the Igbo people so does afro Americans. Jamaicans look very similar to Ghanaians their body frame and features too. They are all West Africans so why make it a big problem.
That was fascinating. I never thought about the accent in relation to history before.
Very well explained I lived in Jamaica 25 years and I love patois
I can understand Patois somewhat fairly as I grew up with many Jamaican family and friends.
My grandmother is Jamaican. ^^
You'll understand only as much as someone wants you to understand.. it can be turned up where you have no clue what's being said
@@DV-lr8ec ok...
@@DV-lr8ec I said somewhat not that I was an expert.
@@DV-lr8ec You know her personally, she has a connection to yard, stop being mean spirited for no reason. Janelle big up and keep doing your thing.