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Papiamento

Today it means: A Creole language spoken on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire. Full definition →

Papiamentu Papiamento

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Papiamentu · borrowed fromPapiamento
English todayPapiamento

From Papiamentu Papiamento. Compare Portuguese papeamento (“chatter”). This spelling is used in Aruba, while the spelling Papiamentu is used in Bonaire and Curaçao.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.