Papiamento

[pah-pyah-men-taw, pah-pyuh-men-toh]

noun

1. a creolized language based on Spanish and spoken on Curaçao.

Papiamento

/ papjaˈmento /

noun

1. a creolized Spanish spoken in the Netherlands Antilles

Word History and Origins

Origin of Papiamento¹

Spanish, from papia talk

Example Sentences

The economy is largely based on tourism so, to cater for this, many islanders speak four languages - Dutch, English, Spanish and the local Creole language, Papiamento.

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Dive into Aruban cuisine with a meal under the trees at Papiamento, an upscale Aruban restaurant named for the local language.

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Bogaerts’ ability to speak four languages — English and Spanish as well as Dutch and Papiamento, the languages of his native Aruba — enables him to easily act as clubhouse ambassador for new players.

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Their descendants still speak a unique Creole language, Papiamento, the vernacular of all native Bonaireans.

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Many times he stayed with her, speaking in Papiamento about chicken-head soup and other dainties of misery, and he would have kept right on if she had not let him know that his presence frightened off customers.

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