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- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language abstract "Jamaican Maroon spirit-possession language, Maroon Spirit language, or Jamaican Maroon Creole, is a ritual language and used to be the mother tongue of the Jamaican maroons in the past. It is an English-based creole with a strong Akan component. (It is distinct from usual Jamaican Creole, being similar to the creoles of Sierra Leone (Krio) and Suriname such as Sranan and Ndyuka language. Today Maroon Spirit language is used by Jamaican Maroons (largely Coromantees) while possessed by the spirits of ancestors during Coromantee (Kromanti) ceremonies or when addressing those who are possessed.The term \"Kromanti\" is used by participants in such ceremonies in order to refer to the language spoken by ancestors in the distant past, prior to the creolization of Jamaican Maroon Creole. This term is used to refer to a language which is \"clearly not a form of Jamaican Creole and displays very little English content\" (Bilby 1983: 38). While Kromanti is not a functioning language, those possessed by ancestral spirits are attributed the ability to speak it. More remote ancestors are compared with more recent ancestors on a gradient, such that increasing strength and ability in the use of the non-creolized Kromanti are attributed to increasingly remote ancestors (as opposed to the Jamaican Maroon Creole used to address these ancestors).The language was brought along by the Maroon population from Trelawny town to Nova Scotia in 1796 where they were sent in exile. They eventually traveled to Sierra Leone in 1800. Their creole language highly influenced the local creole language that evolved into present day Krio.".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language iso6393Code "none".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language languageFamily English-based_creole_languages.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language languageFamily Suriname.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language spokenIn Jamaica.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageExternalLink 4308.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageID "10671975".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageLength "2795".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageOutDegree "30".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageRevisionID "705300574".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink 1796.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink 1800.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Akan_language.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ceremonial_Vodoun_languages.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:English-based_pidgins_and_creoles.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extinct_languages.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Jamaican_Maroons.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Jamaica.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pidgins_and_creoles.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ritual_languages.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Coromantee.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink English-based_creole_languages.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Jamaica.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Jamaican_Maroons.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Jamaican_Patois.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Krio.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Ndyuka_language.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Nova_Scotia.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Sacred_language.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Sierra_Leone.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Spirit_possession.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Sranan_Tongo.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Suriname.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink Trelawny_town.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLink West_African_Pidgin_English.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Jamaican Maroon Creole".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Jamaican Maroon spirit-possession language".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Jamaican Maroon".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language fam English-based_creole_languages.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language fam "Atlantic".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language fam "Suriname".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language familycolor "Creole".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language glotto "none".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language iso "none".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language name "Maroon language".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language region Jamaica.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language speakers "none".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cite_journal.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_language.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Pidgincreole-lang-stub.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language subject Category:Ceremonial_Vodoun_languages.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language subject Category:English-based_pidgins_and_creoles.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language subject Category:Extinct_languages.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language subject Category:Jamaican_Maroons.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language subject Category:Languages_of_Jamaica.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language subject Category:Pidgins_and_creoles.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language subject Category:Ritual_languages.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language hypernym Language.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language type Language.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language type Language.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language type Language.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language type Thing.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language type Q315.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language type Q34770.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language comment "Jamaican Maroon spirit-possession language, Maroon Spirit language, or Jamaican Maroon Creole, is a ritual language and used to be the mother tongue of the Jamaican maroons in the past. It is an English-based creole with a strong Akan component. (It is distinct from usual Jamaican Creole, being similar to the creoles of Sierra Leone (Krio) and Suriname such as Sranan and Ndyuka language.".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language label "Jamaican Maroon spirit-possession language".
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language sameAs Q1093206.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language sameAs Língua_do_espírito_maroon_da_Jamaica.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language sameAs m.02qlty8.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language sameAs Q1093206.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language wasDerivedFrom Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language?oldid=705300574.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language isPrimaryTopicOf Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language.
- Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language name "Maroon language".