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Origin of Papiamento- Aruba’s native language
ORANJESTAD — Papia- piamento directly to Portu- releases to the English), all
mento, Creole language of guese, Galician or Castilian originated in the Creole of
ABC (Aruba, Bonaire and (see Papiamento, on Wiki- Cabo Verde (Cape Verdean
Curacao) is from the Cape pedia - Portuguese version language), which was the
Verdean Creole family and Spanish version, where French language spoken in
(Cape Verdean language) the Portuguese and Spanish, Portuguese feitories on the
and was taken to the Carib- each claim the direct origin coast of Africa (from Senegal
bean in the 9th century by of Papiamento), in fact, this to Sierra Leone), and which
the Cape Verdeans of that is not true. Papiamento is not was taken east by the thou-
time (linings and slaves), direct from Portuguese, Gali- sands of cable - Verdeans
experts in cane culture and cian or Castilian, it is from the (linings and slaves, already
sugar production, and who Cape Verde Creole family Christianized and speaking
were hired by Jewish entre- (Cape Verdean language). Creole) who served as sailors
preneurs who went to invest You can see this best when and “slaves of arms′′ in Portu-
in this business in the Carib- it's saying obscene words guese caravels, demanding
bean. Cape Verdeans taught and offending someone, the east. I don't know why the Hermini Mountains, but guese origin, Daman, India,
this pre-industrial revolution precisely as they say today in the official history of Portu- not much speaking of our Sri Lanka, Myanmar, some lo-
technology (planting cane both ABC and Cape Verde gal usually omits this fact, black-African ancestry. cations in the Philippines and
and producing sugar, which islands. The obscene words which is in the chronicles of some places in Indonesia,
they had learned from Ma- kept the original, had no lexi- the quinrentist chroniclers, We Cape Verdeans under- are creoles of the language
deirans) to slaves from other cal influence either from Cas- but which we never saw in stand each other very well family Cape Verde Creole
African regions, and did so in tilian or Dutch. Also the Papi the history of Portugal that with these Antillans and East- (Cape Verdean language)
their language, Cape Verde Cristang of Malacca, the we study from primary edu- erns, whose language is from and indirectly the Galaico-
Creole (Cape Verdean Patuá of Macau, and several cation to higher education. the same Creole family of Duriense or Galaico-Portu-
language) , hence the lan- creoles from the east (from However, it has always been Cape Verde (Cape Verdean guese, a language that the
guage implanted in Aruba, Daman, Sri Lanka, Myan- tried to deceive us, in colo- language), speaking their people spoke in Portugal in
Bonaire and Curacao. mar, Philippines, Indonesia) nial time, that we were de- Creole and we ours. There- the 6th and 7th century.q
and Africa (Casamança, scendants of Viriato (Iberian fore, Papiamento, Papi Cris-
Unlike many interesting Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone hero in the fight against the tang, Patuá Macaense and Source: Dushi Aruba
stories, wanting to link Pa- and Nigeria, these last two Romans) and the pastors of the creoles, said of Portu-
Lessons from our elders:
Plants and fruits for medicinal use (part 2)
low blood pressure were advised Pomegranate few benefits for our health. Ac-
to eat sweet potato 2 to 3 times a Pomegranates are also one of the cording to customs, pomegranate
week. However, if you have high easier fruits to plant and harvest. skin tea can help those that suffer
blood pressure, it is best not to eat Originated from Persia, this plant from diarrhea. Dried pomegranate
too much sweet potato, as this can grow almost everywhere. In skin tea is also good for people who
raises blood pressure. Sweet pota- Aruba, there are many homes have worms. Pomegranate flowers
toes are also great for people who that have a tiny or big pomegran- can be boiled to make a drink and
work hard labor jobs, and it’s been ate tree. You may be wondering this can be used for irritated gums;
said to be aid blood circulation in what the difference is between a just take a swig and let the tea sit in
the body, as well as help those with small and big pomegranate tree, your mouth for a couple minutes.
hemorrhoids or diarrhea. for which the answer is based on
Many of our elders opted to plant harvest time. Tiny trees produce Source: Remedi i Kustumber di nos
sweet potatoes themselves, mostly tinier pomegranates that can be Bieunan (Medicine and Customs of
(Oranjestad)—In last week’s edi- because of how easy it was to do harvested early on. Contrarily, big our Elderly) by Dinah Veeris
tion, we shared with our readers so. Cut the end of a sweet potato trees produce bigger pomegran-
some medicinal use for plants and let it sit in shallow water until it starts ates, but they need enough time
fruits, passed down from our elders to sprout. Then you may plant it in to fully ripen before harvesting,
through generations. This week, we the ground. Sweet potatoes need otherwise you might end up with
present two more uses of fruits and plenty of water to grow, especially bitter seeds. Pomegranate trees
plants for medicinal use. in the first week in the ground. It are also very easy to plant. In es-
was said that once you start to no- sence, if you just throw the seeds
Sweet potato tice the ground crack underneath on the ground, they could grow
According to our elders, sweet po- the flowers, it is time to harvest. This into a tree.
tato is mostly useful for low blood should happen around month 3. In terms of medicinal use, pome-
pressure. People who suffer from granate skins are said to have a