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ISO 639-3 · pappap
unclassified · creole or pidgin
Papiamento
Papiamentu
Papiamento is a creole or pidgin, spoken in Aruba and Curaçao. Wikidata counts 321,300 first-language speakers (2011) and 20,000 who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “creole language spoken in the Dutch West Indies”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
pap- Glottocode
papi1253- Family
- unclassified
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- 12.20, -69.00
- Wikipedia
- 91 language editions
321,300first-language speakers
20,000second-language speakers
2countries
1scripts
—levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Papiamento · Papiamentu |
|---|---|
| Also called | Papiamentu |
| L1 speakers | 321,300 (2011) |
| L2 speakers | 20,000 (2011) |
| All speakers | 319,000 (1999) |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Official in | Aruba, Curaçao |
| Kind | creole or pidgin |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelwhere it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
