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            Origin of Papiamento- Aruba’s native language



                                                                                    ian (see Papiamento, on Wikipedia  of  Portugal  usually  omits  this  fact,
                                                                                    -  Portuguese  version  and  Spanish  which  is  in  the  chronicles  of  the
                                                                                    version, where the Portuguese and  quinrentist  chroniclers,  but  which
                                                                                    Spanish, each claim the direct ori-  we never saw in the history of Por-
                                                                                    gin of Papiamento), in fact, this is  tugal  that  we  study  from  primary
                                                                                    not true. Papiamento is not direct  education  to  higher  education.
                                                                                    from Portuguese, Galician or Cas-   However, it has always been tried
                                                                                    tilian,  it  is  from  the  Cape  Verde  to deceive us, in colonial time, that
                                                                                    Creole  family  (Cape  Verdean  we  were  descendants  of  Viriato
                                                                                    language). You can see this best-   (Iberian  hero  in  the  fight  against
                                                                                    when  it's  saying  obscene  words  the Romans) and the pastors of the
                                                                                    and offending someone, precisely  Hermini  Mountains,  but  not  much
                                                                                    as they say today in both ABC and  speaking  of  our  black-African  an-
                                                                                    Cape Verde islands. The obscene  cestry.
                                                                                    words  kept  the  original,  had  no
                                                                                    lexical influence either from Castil-  We  Cape  Verdeans  understand
                                                                                    ian or Dutch. Also the PapiCristang  each  other  very  well  with  these
                                                                                    of Malacca, the Patuá of Macau,  Antillans  and  Easterns,  whose
                                                                                    and several creoles from the east  language  is  from  the  same  Cre-
                                                                                    (from Daman, Sri Lanka, Myanmar,  ole  family  of  Cape  Verde  (Cape
                                                                                    Philippines,  Indonesia)  and  Africa  Verdean   language),   speaking
                                                                                    (Casamança,  Guinea  Bissau,  Si-   their  Creole  and  we  ours.  There-
                                                                                    erra Leone and Nigeria, these last  fore,  Papiamento,  PapiCristang,
                                                                                    two  releases  to  the  English),  all  PatuáMacaense  and  the  creoles,
            ORANJESTAD      —     Papiamento,  pre-industrial  revolution  technol-  originated  in  the  Creole  of  Cabo  said of Portuguese origin, Daman,
            Creole  language  of  ABC  (Aruba,  ogy  (planting  cane  and  produc-  Verde (Cape Verdean language),  India,  Sri  Lanka,  Myanmar,  some
            Bonaire  and  Curacao)  is  from  ing sugar, which they had learned     which  was  the  French  language  locations  in  the  Philippines  and
            the  Cape  Verdean  Creole  fam-    from  Madeirans)  to  slaves  from   spoken  in  Portuguese  feitories  on  some places in Indonesia, are cre-
            ily (Cape Verdean language) and  other African regions, and did so in   the coast of Africa (from Senegal  oles of the language family Cape
            was taken to the Caribbean in the  their  language,  Cape  Verde  Cre-  to  Sierra  Leone),  and  which  was  Verde Creole (Cape Verdean lan-
            9th century by the Cape Verdeans  ole  (Cape  Verdean  language)  ,     taken east by the thousands of ca-  guage) and indirectly the Galaico-
            of  that  time  (linings  and  slaves),  hence the language implanted in   ble - Verdeans (linings and slaves,  Duriense or Galaico-Portuguese, a
            experts in cane culture and sugar  Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao.          already  Christianized  and  speak-  language that the people spoke in
            production, and who were hired by                                       ing  Creole)  who  served  as  sailors  Portugal in the 6th and 7th century.
            Jewish entrepreneurs who went to  Unlike  many  interesting  stories,   and “slaves of arms′′ in Portuguese
            invest in this business in the Carib-  wanting to link Papiamento direct-  caravels,  demanding  the  east.  I                      Anonymous
            bean.  Cape  Verdeans  taught  this  ly to Portuguese, Galician or Castil-  don't know why the official history              Source: Dushi Aruba



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