Papiamento
Papiamento (Papiamentu) is a creole
language spoken north of Venezuela on Aruba, Curaçao, St Martin and Bonaire
islands of the leeward Netherlands Antilles. The language, which has about
150,000 speakers is primarily based on Portuguese and Spanish, though there are
Dutch and English influences as well.
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