papiamentu in English
noun
1
a Spanish Creole language with admixtures of Portuguese and Dutch, spoken on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao.
The description of the interdependence of tonal and stress features in Papiamentu provides important insights on the genesis of mixed Creole systems in which these suprasegmental features are phonologically distinctive.
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1. The press releases on Bonaire are published in Dutch and Papiamentu
2. With the authorisation of the Dutch Ministry of Education, other allochtonous migrant languages, such as Portuguese, New Greek, Chinese, Papiamentu could also potentially be taught as modern foreign languages, as part of the core curriculum.