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Origin of Papiamento- Aruba’s native language

ORANJESTAD — Papiamento, Creole lan- lexical influence either from Castilian or
guage of ABC (Aruba, Bonaire and Cu- Dutch. Also the PapiCristang of Malacca,
racao) is from the Cape Verdean Creole the Patuá of Macau, and several creoles
family (Cape Verdean language) and was from the east (from Daman, Sri Lanka,
taken to the Caribbean in the 9th century Myanmar, Philippines, Indonesia) and Afri-
by the Cape Verdeans of that time (linings ca (Casamança, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Le-
and slaves), experts in cane culture and one and Nigeria, these last two releases to
sugar production, and who were hired by the English), all originated in the Creole of language), speaking family Cape Verde Creole
Jewish entrepreneurs who went to invest Cabo Verde (Cape Verdean language), their Creole and we ours. (Cape Verdean language)
in this business in the Caribbean. Cape which was the French language spoken Therefore, Papiamento, and indirectly the Galaico-
Verdeans taught this pre-industrial revolu- in Portuguese feitories on the coast of Af- PapiCristang, PatuáMa- Duriense or Galaico-Portu-
tion technology (planting cane and pro- rica (from Senegal to Sierra Leone), and caense and the creoles, guese, a language that the
ducing sugar, which they had learned which was taken east by the thousands said of Portuguese origin, people spoke in Portugal in
from Madeirans) to slaves from other Afri- of cable - Verdeans (linings and slaves, al- Daman, India, Sri Lanka, the 6th and 7th century.
can regions, and did so in their language, ready Christianized and speaking Creole) Myanmar, some locations
Cape Verde Creole (Cape Verdean lan- who served as sailors and “slaves of arms′′ in the Philippines and some Anonymous
guage) , hence the language implanted in Portuguese caravels, demanding the places in Indonesia, are Source: Dushi Aruba
in Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao. east. I don't know why the official history creoles of the language
of Portugal usually omits this fact, which is
Unlike many interesting stories, wanting to in the chronicles of the quinrentist chroni-
link Papiamento directly to Portuguese, clers, but which we never saw in the his-
Galician or Castilian (see Papiamento, on tory of Portugal that we study from primary
Wikipedia - Portuguese version and Span- education to higher education. However,
ish version, where the Portuguese and it has always been tried to deceive us, in
Spanish, each claim the direct origin of colonial time, that we were descendants
Papiamento), in fact, this is not true. Pa- of Viriato (Iberian hero in the fight against
piamento is not direct from Portuguese, the Romans) and the pastors of the Her-
Galician or Castilian, it is from the Cape mini Mountains, but not much speaking of
Verde Creole family (Cape Verdean lan- our black-African ancestry.
guage). You can see this bestwhen it's
saying obscene words and offending We Cape Verdeans understand each oth-
someone, precisely as they say today in er very well with these Antillans and East-
both ABC and Cape Verde islands. The erns, whose language is from the same Cre-
obscene words kept the original, had no ole family of Cape Verde (Cape Verdean