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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Jamaican Creoles<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage|first1=Richard |last1=Allsopp |publisher=UWI Press|year=1996 |page=176-177|isbn=978-976-640-145-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Who and What are the Creole Peoples and Languages? |publisher= Masaman |work= Who and What are the Creole Peoples |date=2018 |url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=rkq9TD9DjtE|access-date=2024-08-02}}</ref>
| regions = Throughout [[Jamaica]]
| pop = 76.3% of [[Jamaica]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uwi.edu/jamaica.php#:~:text=Population:2,824,913+(2024+est.,%25+Chinese+and+0.8%25+Other.&text=History:+When+Christopher+Columbus+first,by+Arawak+(Taino)+Indians|title=Jamaica | The University of the West Indies|website=www.uwi.edu}}</ref>
| langs = [[Jamaican Patois]], [[Jamaican English]]
| rels = Predominantly [[Protestantism]], with minorities of other forms of [[Christianity]], [[Judaism]], and [[Rastafari|Rastafari]] <br />
| related = [[Afro-
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'''Afro-Jamaicans''', or '''Jamaican Creoles''',<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage|first1=Richard |last1=Allsopp |publisher=UWI Press|year=1996 |page=13, 176-177|isbn=978-976-640-145-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Who and What are the Creole Peoples and Languages? |publisher= Masaman |work= Who and What are the Creole Peoples |date=2018 |url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=rkq9TD9DjtE|access-date=2024-08-02}}</ref>
The [[ethnogenesis]] of the Jamaican [[Creole people]] stems from the indigenous [[Taíno]], and the [[Coromantee|Cromanty]] ethnic group who were abducted from the Gold Coast, and taken to Jamaica during the [[Atlantic slave trade]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Jamaican English|first1=Robert B. Le Page |last1=Frederic G. Cassidy.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1980 |page=131|isbn=978-0-521-11840-8}}</ref> Both the [[Taíno]], and the [[Coromantee|Cromanty]] were held captive during slavery, and intermarried with one another over the course of time. Their descendants the ('''Creoles''') are now the predominant ethnic group in [[Jamaica]], [[Bermuda]], [[Cayman Islands]], the [[Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina|Raizal Islands]], and the [[Turks and Caicos Islands]];<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage|first1=Richard |last1=Allsopp |publisher=UWI Press|year=1996 |page=176-177|isbn=978-976-640-145-0}}</ref> who all share a common ('''Creolian''') heritage and ancestry.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Jamaican English|first1=Robert B. Le Page |last1=Frederic G. Cassidy.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1980 |page=130|isbn=978-0-521-11840-8}}</ref>
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