Papiamento
Papiamento (English: /ˌpɑːpiəˈmɛntoʊ/)[2] or Papiamentu (English: /ˌpɑːpiəˈmɛntuː/) is a creole language spoken in the Caribbean. It is the most common language on the ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. It is also commonly spoken in Sint Eustatius and Saba.
| Papiamento | |
|---|---|
| Papiamentu | |
| Native to | Aruba, Curaçao, Caribbean Netherlands: Bonaire |
| Native speakers | 412,694[1] (date missing) |
| Language family | Portuguese Creole
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| Writing system | Latin (Papiamento orthography) |
| Official status | |
| Official language in | Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | pap |
| ISO 639-3 | pap |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAC-be |
 Location map of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, where Papiamento is spoken | |
Papiamento Media
Burial site and monument to Doctor Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez, the first prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles, with a message inscribed in Papiamento: No hasi ku otro loke bo no ke pa otro hasi ku bo, roughly meaning: "Do not do unto others what you do not want others do unto you"
Catecismo Corticu – the first printed book in Papiamento in 1837
Boo Jantje letter from 1783
Poems in Papiamento, Leiden
The meaning of Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). explained in Caribbean style
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References
- ↑ www.ethnologue.com
- ↑ Wells, John C. (2008), Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.), Longman, ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0
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This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Papiamento edition. |
