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Papiamento is primarily spoken on the ABC Islands and to a lesser extent by the Dutch Caribbean diaspora, [30] namely in the Netherlands. Papiamento is also spoken by a smaller number of speakers in Sint Maarten, [31] Saba and Sint Eustatius. [32] An earlier, now-extinct form of Papiamento was formerly spoken on the Paraguana peninsula of ...
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 ...
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.
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].
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