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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. It is the most widely spoken language on the ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao). [4]
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 population is able to converse in at least three of the languages of Papiamento, Dutch, English, and Spanish.
Papiamentu, or What Can a Literature Do for its Language", in Hoogbergen, Wim (ed.), Born Out of Resistance. On Caribbean Cultural Creativity , Utrecht: Isor-Publications Fertel, Rien (2014), Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans , Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press
Papiamento (spoken on Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao in the Caribbean) 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.
Abo So (Papiamento for "Only You") is a 2013 musical romance film written and directed by Juan Francisco Pardo. Set in Aruba, this Papiamento language film features the music of Padú del Caribe. [1] [2] [3]
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.
Ritmo Kombina (Combined rhythm) is a style of popular Dutch Antillean music, influenced by zouk and soca music. The lyrics of combined rhythm are generally in the local Papiamento language. Performers
Judaeo-Papiamento, or Jewish Papiamentu, is an endangered Jewish language and an ethnolect of Papiamento spoken by the Sephardic Jewish community of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean. It is likely the only living Jewish ethnolect based on a creole language and the only one based on a language native to the Kingdom of the Netherlands .