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Jamaican

How many syllables in Jamaican?

  3 syllables

Divide Jamaican into syllables:   Ja-mai-can
Stressed syllable in Jamaican:   Ja-mai-can
How to pronounce Jamaican:   juh-mey-kun
How to say Jamaican:

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