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Language Comparison: Madurese vs Papiamento
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Aspect | Madurese | Papiamento |
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Family | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | Creole |
Speakers | Approximately 13.5 million | Approximately 350,000 |
Features | A language with distinct phonetic features, such as a reduced vowel inventory and a preference for glottal stops; it exhibits a high degree of mutual unintelligibility with Javanese despite geographic proximity. | A Creole language spoken in the Caribbean, combining elements from Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, African languages, and Arawakan |
Countries | Indonesia (primarily on Madura Island and in parts of East Java, including Surabaya and surrounding areas) | Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire |
Writing System | Latin script (modern use), previously Javanese and Pegon scripts (Arabic-derived script) | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses prepositions and affixes to mark relationships | No, uses prepositions and word order to indicate relationships |
Derived From | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | Portuguese-based Creole with significant influence from Spanish, Dutch, and African languages |
Loanwords | From Javanese, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Dutch | From Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English |
Dialects | Includes Bangkalan, Sumenep, and Pamekasan dialects, with significant lexical and phonological differences | Minor differences between Papiamento spoken in Aruba (Papiamento) and Curaçao/Bonaire (Papiamentu) |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, W, Y, Z | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
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