Papiamento facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Papiamento |
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| Papiamentu | |
| Native to | Aruba, Curaçao, Caribbean Netherlands: Bonaire |
| Native speakers | 412,694 (date missing) |
| Language family |
Portuguese Creole
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| Writing system | Latin (Papiamento orthography) |
| Official status | |
| Official language in | Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAC-be |
Location map of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, where Papiamento is spoken
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Papiamento or Papiamentu is a creole language spoken in the Caribbean. It is the most common language on the ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. It is also commonly spoken in Sint Eustatius and Saba.
Images for kids
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Burial site and monument to Doctor Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez, the first prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles, with a message inscribed in Papiamento: No hasi ku otro loke bo no ke pa otro hasi ku bo, roughly meaning: "Do not do unto others what you do not want others do unto you"
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Catecismo Corticu – the first printed book in Papiamento in 1837
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Boo Jantje letter from 1783
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Poems in Papiamento, Leiden
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The meaning of dushi explained in Caribbean style
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See also
In Spanish: Papiamento para niños
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