what are the official languages of jamaica?
Jamaican Creole English Language Jamaican English
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 Several varieties of English are also spoken in the Caribbean Islands that were colonial possessions of Britain , including Jamaica , and the Leeward and Windward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago , Barbados , the Cayman Islands , and Belize . Each of these areas are home both to a local variety of English and a local English based creole , combining English and African languages . The most prominent varieties are Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole . In Central America , English based creoles are spoken in on the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua and Panama . Locals are often fluent both in the local English variety and the local creole languages and code @-@ switching between them is frequent , indeed another way to conceptualise the relationship between Creole and Standard varieties is to see a spectrum of social registers with the Creole forms serving as " basilect " and the more RP @-@ like forms serving as the " acrolect " , the most formal register . 

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 The monarchy of Jamaica has its roots in the Spanish monarchy , under the authority of which the islands were first colonised in the late 16th century , and later the English and then British monarchy , as a Crown colony . On 6 August 1962 , the country gained independence from the United Kingdom , retaining the then reigning monarch , Elizabeth II , as monarch of the newly created monarchy of Jamaica . The monarch is represented in the country by the Governor @-@ General of Jamaica , Sir Patrick Allen . 

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 Most Caribbean varieties are based on British English and consequently most are non @-@ rhotic , except for formal styles of Jamaican English which are often rhotic . Jamaican English differs from RP in its vowel inventory , which has a distinction between long and short vowels rather than tense and lax vowels as in Standard English . The diphthongs / ei / and / ou / are monophthongs [ eː ] and [ oː ] or even the reverse diphthongs [ ie ] and [ uo ] ( e.g. bay and boat pronounced [ bʲeː ] and [ bʷoːt ] ) . Often word final consonant clusters are simplified so that " child " is pronounced [ t ͡ ʃail ] and " wind " [ win ] . 

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 The official languages of the country are French and Sango ; the latter ( originally a language from the Ubangi River region ) is spoken by 90 % of the population . Some of the other languages spoken are Baya ( Gbaya ) , Banda , Ngbaka , Sara , Mbum , Kare , and Mandjia . Sango was simplified by Christian missionaries and is widely used to this day . 
