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Papiamento is primarily spoken on the ABC Islands and to a lesser extent by the Dutch Caribbean diaspora, [29] namely in the Netherlands. Papiamento is also spoken by a smaller number of speakers in Sint Maarten, [30] Saba and Sint Eustatius. [31] An earlier, now-extinct form of Papiamento was formerly spoken on the Paraguana peninsula of ...
Curaçao, [a] officially the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; [10] Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), [11] [12] is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela.
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Judeao-Papiamento is generally mutually intelligible with Papiamento, the main language of most Curaçaoans, locally known as Papiamentu.Papiamento is usually considered an originally Portuguese-based creole language that was subsequently partly relexified by Spanish, but some linguists argue the opposite, viewing it as a Spanish-based creole with a strong Portuguese influence.
The Diocese of Willemstad was erected in 1752 as the Prefecture Apostolic of Curaçao. It was elevated to an apostolic vicariate on 20 September 1842 and to the Diocese of Willemstad on 28 April 1958. The language spoken in many of the Catholic churches here is Papiamento and English. The diocese has maintained a website in this language and in ...
In Papiamentu, numerals are written as one word, e.g. dosshen ('two hundred') and are another example of where consonants may appear twice, but in Papiamento they are not, e.g. dos cien / shen. In Papiamento where the letter c is often used, the first c in words like acceso and occidente is pronounced [k].
This category page lists people who speak or spoke Papiamento with some degree of fluency, but not necessary as native speakers. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
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