Talk:Jumieka

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Jumieka

So "Jumieka" is the language and the word here? Does it have a code? Mutante 20:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

There is w:Jamaican Creole, coded jam in ISO 639-3 according to WP. That said, Books results for "Jumieka" number three, none clearly visible. Scholar results number 1, and that one is not useful for attestation. I smell a joke, but am not sure.—msh210℠ 20:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, then it sounds like "Jumieka" means "Jamaica" in Jamaican Creole, so it would be

== Jamaican Creole ==
===Proper noun===
{{infl|jam|proper noun}}
# [[Jamaica]]
[[Category:jam:Islands]]

i suppose. Mutante 23:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

That's assuming it's correct at all. Even if so, we don't know which sense of Jamaica it means: the island or the country. (We currently only have the "country" sense s.v. Jamaica#English, but should have both; the word has both meanings. Although it's not necessary to demonstrate a geographic difference between the country and the island in order to prove that the word has two senses — it does anyway — there is a geographical difference: the w:Port Royal Cays are part of the country of Jamaica but are not on the island of Jamaica. The other-language entries s.v. Jamaica should also specify which sense of the English word is meant.)—msh210℠ 16:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

The chances of any language not using the same word to refer to both the island and the country are virtually nil. Angr 14:41, 4 August 2008 (UTC)