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England, Barbados, and Montserrat; settlers from Surinam, Barbados, Bermuda, New England, and Virginia; Jews from Brazil; indentured servants from Bristol; midland and northern lower-class English speakers; convicts from large prisons in England; Romany speakers; and a variety of African speakers. The birth of population centers, such as Port Royal, Passage Fort, and Kingston, served as a mixing pot of many different speakers. D Today linguists agree that East Indians, Spanish, and Arawaks have contributed a little vocabulary to the Jamaican dialect, but the majority of non-English terms, grammar and phonology is African. Africans came to acquire forms of English because of the domination of the English dialects of their plantation-owning masters. The heyday of sugar, between 1700-1834, is the period thought to be most responsible for the forming of Patois. At this time, increasing numbers of Africans were imported to work on the large plantations. By the end of the century Africans made up a quarter of the slave population and Creole took precedence over the African past. Increases in written records of Jamaican Creole were seen at the time of the abolitionist movement from 1770 to 1838, but English continued to influence Jamaican Creole in the form of biblical and prayer-book language. E The perception that English-lexicon Creole languages are a form of "bad English" still persists today in Jamaica. Jamaican Patois continues to be considered an unacceptable official language and an informal language not to be used for any formal purpose. Creole speakers are often compared to those speakers of Standard English. The similarity of Creole to English has led Creole speakers to be labelled as socially and linguistically inferior, although Jamaica Creole is increasingly showing up in newspapers once known for their old-fashioned Standard English, on the radio, and in songs. Indeed, in the past 30 or 40 years linguists have finally begun to recognize Creole as a language in itself. In which section are the following mentioned? Your answers: the reason why Jamaican Creole is looked down upon 86. a source by which Jamaicans were exposed to English after Patois developed 87. how most people speak in Jamaica 88. the name of the legally recognized language of Jamaica 89. why there are not many Arawaks in Jamaica today 90. the part of society that speaks the London Standard of English 91.