Bocas del Toro Creole

{{Short description|Jamaican Patois dialect of Panama}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Bocas del Toro Patois

|altname=Panamanian Patois English

|states=Panama

|speakers={{sigfig|268,000|2}}

|date=2000

|ref={{e18|jam|Jamaican Patois English (Panama)}}

|familycolor=Creole

|fam1=English creole

|fam2=Atlantic

|fam3=Western

|fam4=Jamaican Patois

|linglist=jam-pan

|isoexception=dialect

|glotto=none

|ietf=jam-PA

}}

Bocas del Toro Patois, or Panamanian Patois English, is a dialect of Jamaican Patois, an English-based creole, spoken in Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. It is similar to Central American varieties such as Limonese Creole. It does not have the status of an official language. It was pejoratively known as "guari-guari."{{Cite web |last=Herzfeld |first=Anita |title=Limon Creole and Panamanian Creole: Comparison and Contrast |url=https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/22851/malc_1980_218-242_Herzfeld.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=kuscholarworks.ku.edu}}