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Origin of Papiamento- Aruba’s native language
ORANJESTAD — Papia- tion technology (plant- PapiCristang of Malacca, never saw in the history guage family Cape Verde
mento, Creole language ing cane and producing
of ABC (Aruba, Bonaire sugar, which they had
and Curacao) is from the learned from Madeirans)
Cape Verdean Creole to slaves from other African
family (Cape Verdean regions, and did so in their
language) and was taken language, Cape Verde
to the Caribbean in the Creole (Cape Verdean
9th century by the Cape language) , hence the lan-
Verdeans of that time (lin- guage implanted in Aruba,
ings and slaves), experts Bonaire and Curacao.
in cane culture and sugar
production, and who were Unlike many interesting
hired by Jewish entrepre- stories, wanting to link Pa-
neurs who went to invest in piamento directly to Portu-
this business in the Caribbe- guese, Galician or Castilian
an. Cape Verdeans taught (see Papiamento, on Wiki-
this pre-industrial revolu- pedia - Portuguese version
and Spanish version, where language), which was the black-African ancestry.
the Portuguese and Span- French language spoken
ish, each claim the direct in Portuguese feitories on We Cape Verdeans un-
origin of Papiamento), in the coast of Africa (from derstand each other very
fact, this is not true. Papia- Senegal to Sierra Leone), well with these Antillans
mento is not direct from and which was taken east and Easterns, whose lan-
Portuguese, Galician or by the thousands of cable guage is from the same
Castilian, it is from the Cape - Verdeans (linings and Creole family of Cape
Verde Creole family (Cape slaves, already Christian- Verde (Cape Verdean lan-
Verdean language). You ized and speaking Creole) guage), speaking their Cre-
can see this bestwhen it's who served as sailors and ole and we ours. Therefore,
saying obscene words and “slaves of arms′′ in Portu- Papiamento, PapiCristang,
offending someone, pre- guese caravels, demand- PatuáMacaense and the
cisely as they say today in ing the east. I don't know creoles, said of Portuguese
both ABC and Cape Verde why the official history of origin, Daman, India, Sri
islands. The obscene words Portugal usually omits this Lanka, Myanmar, some lo-
kept the original, had no fact, which is in the chron- cations in the Philippines
lexical influence either from icles of the quinrentist and some places in Indone-
Castilian or Dutch. Also the chroniclers, but which we sia, are creoles of the lan-
the Patuá of Macau, and of Portugal that we study Creole (Cape Verdean
several creoles from the from primary education to language) and indirectly
east (from Daman, Sri Lan- higher education. Howev- the Galaico-Duriense or
ka, Myanmar, Philippines, er, it has always been tried Galaico-Portuguese, a
Indonesia) and Africa to deceive us, in colonial language that the people
(Casamança, Guinea Bis- time, that we were descen- spoke in Portugal in the 6th
sau, Sierra Leone and Nige- dants of Viriato (Iberian and 7th century.
ria, these last two releases hero in the fight against the Anonymous
to the English), all originat- Romans) and the pastors of Source: Dushi Aruba
ed in the Creole of Cabo the Hermini Mountains, but
Verde (Cape Verdean not much speaking of our
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you for supporting our free newspaper, the Divi Phoenix and have now been 7
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from the beginning of 2022.
Thank you for sharing with us and our
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