Papiamento

See also: papiamento

English

Alternative forms

• Papiamentu

Etymology

From Papiamentu Papiamento. Compare Portuguese papeamento (“chatter”). This spelling is used in Aruba, while the spelling Papiamentu is used in Bonaire and Curaçao.

Proper noun

Papiamento

1. A Creole language spoken on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire.

Translations

language

• Catalan: papiament (ca) m
• Corsican: papiamentu (co) m
• Dutch: Papiaments (nl) n
• Esperanto: Papiamento
• Finnish: papiamento (fi)
• French: papiamento (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Papiamintsk (fy) n

• Italian: papiamento (it) m
• Japanese: パピアメント語 (ja) (papiamentogo)
• Papiamento: papiamento (Aruba), papiamentu (Bonaire, Curaçao)
• Portuguese: papeamento m, papiamento (pt) m
• Russian: папьяменто (ru) m (papʹjamento)
• Spanish: papiamento (es) m

See also

• Appendix:Papiamento Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Papiamento

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

• papiamento
• papiamentu (Bonaire, Curaçao)
• Papiamentu (Bonaire, Curaçao)

Noun

Papiamento

1. Aruban standard spelling of Papiamentu