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Download full textKinney, Lucretia – 1970
This paper concerns the development of Papiamento, a creole language spoken in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao, islands off the coast of Venezuela. The contributions of each of the languages which influenced its development--Portuguese, African languages, Spanish, and Dutch--are examined in successive sections of the paper, with a concluding portion…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bibliographies, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics
