Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Papiamento has two standardised orthographies, one used on the island of Aruba and the other on the islands of Curaçao and Bonaire. The Aruban orthography is more etymological in nature, while the other is more phonemic. Among the differences between the two standards, one obvious difference is the way the name of the language is written.
Papiamento (English: / ˌ p æ p i ə ˈ m ɛ n t oʊ, ˌ p ɑː-/) [3] or Papiamentu (English: /-t uː /; Dutch: Papiaments [ˌpaːpijaːˈmɛnts]) is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken in the Dutch Caribbean.
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.
Papiamento was not considered important on Aruba until 1995. It was officially included in the school curriculum in 1998 and 1999. Since then, the island has embraced this native language. A Papiamento dictionary and fairy tales written in Papiamento are now readily available on the island. Aruba is a multilingual society. Most of Aruba's ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Papiamento-language mass media (1 C, 5 P) S. Papiamento-speaking people (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category ...
Arubans in the United States (Papiamento: Arubianonan na Merca) or Aruban-Americans, are immigrants from Aruba to the United States and their descendants. Aruba is an autonomous constituent country of Kingdom of the Netherlands.
This page was last edited on 30 September 2020, at 16:25 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Nydia Ecury (2 February 1926 – 2 March 2012) was an Aruban-Dutch writer, translator and actress. She published five collections of poetry and translated plays of major European and American playwrights into the Papiamentu language, helping to develop the native dialect into a cultural language.