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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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