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Origin of Papiamento- Aruba’s native language

ORANJESTAD — Papia- Unlike many interesting ka, Myanmar, Philippines,
mento, Creole language of stories, wanting to link Pa- Indonesia) and Africa
ABC (Aruba, Bonaire and piamento directly to Portu- (Casamança, Guinea Bis-
Curacao) is from the Cape guese, Galician or Castilian sau, Sierra Leone and Nige-
Verdean Creole family (see Papiamento, on Wiki- ria, these last two releases
(Cape Verdean language) pedia - Portuguese version to the English), all originat-
and was taken to the Ca- and Spanish version, where ed in the Creole of Cabo
ribbean in the 9th century the Portuguese and Span- Verde (Cape Verdean
by the Cape Verdeans ish, each claim the direct language), which was the
of that time (linings and origin of Papiamento), in French language spoken
slaves), experts in cane fact, this is not true. Papia- in Portuguese feitories on from primary education to Creole and we ours. There-
culture and sugar produc- mento is not direct from the coast of Africa (from higher education. Howev- fore, Papiamento, Papi
tion, and who were hired Portuguese, Galician or Senegal to Sierra Leone), er, it has always been tried Cristang, Patuá Macaense
by Jewish entrepreneurs Castilian, it is from the Cape and which was taken east to deceive us, in colonial and the creoles, said of
who went to invest in this Verde Creole family (Cape by the thousands of cable time, that we were descen- Portuguese origin, Daman,
business in the Caribbean. Verdean language). You - Verdeans (linings and dants of Viriato (Iberian India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar,
Cape Verdeans taught can see this best when it's slaves, already Christian- hero in the fight against the some locations in the Phil-
this pre-industrial revolu- saying obscene words and ized and speaking Creole) Romans) and the pastors of ippines and some places
tion technology (planting offending someone, pre- who served as sailors and the Hermini Mountains, but in Indonesia, are creoles
cane and producing sugar, cisely as they say today in “slaves of arms′′ in Portu- not much speaking of our of the language family
which they had learned both ABC and Cape Verde guese caravels, demand- black-African ancestry. Cape Verde Creole (Cape
from Madeirans) to slaves islands. The obscene words ing the east. I don't know We Cape Verdeans un- Verdean language) and
from other African regions, kept the original, had no why the official history of derstand each other very indirectly the Galaico-Du-
and did so in their lan- lexical influence either from Portugal usually omits this well with these Antillans riense or Galaico-Portu-
guage, Cape Verde Creole Castilian or Dutch. Also the fact, which is in the chron- and Easterns, whose lan- guese, a language that the
(Cape Verdean language) Papi Cristang of Malacca, icles of the quinrentist guage is from the same people spoke in Portugal in
, hence the language im- the Patuá of Macau, and chroniclers, but which we Creole family of Cape the 6th and 7th century.
planted in Aruba, Bonaire several creoles from the never saw in the history Verde (Cape Verdean Anonymous
and Curacao. east (from Daman, Sri Lan- of Portugal that we study language), speaking their Source: Dushi Aruba

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