🔬 Di Mouth Lab — di whole ting

Part of the pronunciation section of Patwa Partner — how to physically make the sounds of Jamaican Patois.

Same engine as di likkle player pon every sound page, wid nutten hold back. Every drawing pon dis page — di side view, di front view, di IPA vowel chart, di score — a one set a numbers get draw four different way. Dat a why dem cyaan fall out a sync.

Di ting fi try: turn on “Show di English one fi compare” an play cyaan. Di English column a weh yuh mouth deh now; di Patois column a weh it fi go. Den type yuh own sentence inna di box an watch it.
Honest limit: dis a a diagram weh move, not a MRI trace. It build pon published description a Jamaican Creole phonology — no native-speaker articulation study back it yet — so it teach yuh di direction an di contrast, not exact millimetre. An it silent: dis a di mouth, not di sound.
Practise this sound with the animated mouth →
Opens the interactive lesson: side and front view of the tongue and lips, moving in time with the word.