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Language Comparison: Papiamento vs English
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Aspect | Papiamento | English |
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Family | Creole | Indo-European |
Speakers | Approximately 350,000 | Approximately 1.5 billion (including second-language speakers) |
Features | A Creole language spoken in the Caribbean, combining elements from Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, African languages, and Arawakan | Global lingua franca, originating from the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England |
Countries | Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire | United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many others |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses prepositions and word order to indicate relationships | No |
Derived From | Portuguese-based Creole with significant influence from Spanish, Dutch, and African languages | Old English, influenced by Old Norse and Norman French |
Loanwords | From Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English | From Latin, French, Norse, and many other languages |
Dialects | Minor differences between Papiamento spoken in Aruba (Papiamento) and Curaçao/Bonaire (Papiamentu) | Includes American English, British English, Australian English, Indian English, etc. |
Alphabets | 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 | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
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