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According to this theory, Papiamento was derived from one or more of these older creoles or their predecessors, which were brought to the ABC islands by slaves and traders from Cape Verde and West Africa. The similarity between Papiamento and the other Afro-Portuguese creoles can be seen in the same pronouns used, mi, bo, el, nos, bos(o), being ...
Location map of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, where Papiamento is spoken. Papiamento, spoken on Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, is closely related to the Upper Guinea Creoles: [1] Guinea-Bissau Creole, and especially with Cape Verdean Creole. Papiamento has a Portuguese basis, but has undergone a large Spanish [14] and considerable Dutch influence.
Because e is stressed and changes the stress of the word to which it is affixed, it is always accented in Papiamentu when contracted, e.g. nos a traha e > nos a trah’é ('we made it'). Note: the pronunciation of Papiamento words with a c does not change when such words are contracted with di or e , i.e. the c in sac’i lamunchi , though ...
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Dr. E Frank Martinus compares Papiamentu and other Afro-Spanish and Portuguese Pidgins and creoles (some of which are still spoken in West Africa) and notes very strong morphological, syntactic, phonological and even lexical similarities. Dr.
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.
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