Papiamento is a Creole language containing elements of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English and French, as well as Arawakan and African languages.
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We also publish companion volumes with paired Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese translations.
This dictionary contains 7,500 terms in English and Papiamento.
Although the number of speakers numbers only about 300,000, there are several newspapers published in the language and there has been recent work to standardize the spellings.
Native speakers often disagree about the details.
Linguists have various opinions about the history, phonology and grammar.
It varies from island to island, neighborhood to neighborhood, generation to generation.
Papiamentu is a moving target.
Papiamentu, Dutch and English are the official languages of Cura ao
Papiamentu and Dutch are official in Bonaire, and in Aruba the official languages are Papiamento and Dutch.
After its dissolution, the language\'s official status was confirmed in the newly formed Caribbean Netherlands (part of the Netherlands proper, and compromising Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius), until January 1, 2011; since then, Bonaire is the only portion of the Caribbean Netherlands in which it is recognized.
In the former Netherlands Antilles (which at the time comprised Bonaire, Cura ao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten) Papiamento was made an official language on March 7, 2007.
Papiamento has been an official language of Aruba since May, 2003.
Many Papiamento speakers are multilingual and are also able to speak Dutch, English and Spanish.
In Cura ao and Bonaire the language is known as Papiamentu, and it is known as Papiamento in Aruba.
There are also Papiamento speakers in the Netherlands and Sint Maarten.
It is spoken by about 330,000 people in Cura ao, Bonaire and Aruba, which were formerly known as the Netherlands Antilles.
Papiamento is a Creole language containing elements of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English and French, as well as Arawakan and African languages
