translingual subtype for feeling connected to jamaican patois; feeling as if you should/were meant to know jamaican patois; feeling as if you should be native in jamaican patois etc.
Context: Jamaican Patois is an English-based creole language with West African, Taíno, Irish, Spanish, Hindustani, Portuguese, Chinese, and German influences, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora. Words or slang from Jamaican Patois can be heard in other Caribbean countries, the United Kingdom and Toronto, Canada. The majority of non-English words in Patois derive from the West African Akan language.
