Indo-Jamaicans

Indo-Jamaicans
Total population
21,584 (2011 census)
Regions with significant populations
Portland, Westmoreland, Clarendon, Saint Andrew, Saint Catherine, Saint Mary, Kingston Parish
Languages
Mostly Jamaican English/Patois; Caribbean Hindustani (to lesser extent and spoken by the descendants of Jahajis); Sindhi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kutchi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi-Urdu and other Indian languages (spoken by more recent immigrants)
Religion
Hinduism · Christianity · Islam · Sikhism
Related ethnic groups
Indo-Caribbean people · Indian people · Indian diaspora · Indo-Caribbean Americans · British Indo-Caribbean people · Indo-Fijians · Mauritians of Indian origin · Indian South Africans · South Asian diaspora

Indo-Jamaicans are the descendants of people who came from India and the wider subcontinent to Jamaica. Indians form the third largest ethnic group in Jamaica after Africans and Multiracials.[1] They are a subgroup of Indo-Caribbean people.

  1. ^ "University of the West Indies". Uwi.edu. Archived from the original on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2017.

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