| 释义 |
‖ Papiamento|papjaˈmento|
Also Papiamentu.
[Sp.]
A Spanish-based creole language of Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire, in the Caribbean Sea.
1949Caribbean Q. I. iii. 36 The remnants of the African culture, are fast disappearing... There are no signs, however, that their language, the papiamento, which is still in use everywhere, will disappear. 1953Ibid. III. i. 27 Dialects such as Papiamento..were unworthy of the grammarians' labour. 1956Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxvi. 11 The derivative of Spanish spoken in Curaçao (called Papiamentu or Papiamento), of French in Haïti (Creole), of English in Guiana (Ningro-Tongo), in the West Indies, and in South Carolina (Gullah) are some examples of languages which can either be regarded as dialects of the colonial languages or as new languages of their own. 1967Language XLIII. 818 Papiamentu ‘may well represent a fusion of two earlier pidgins or creoles’. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English i. 24 Some of them [sc. pidgin and creole languages] are vehicles of education and literature, like Papiamento, whose speakers have profited from an enlightened Dutch attitude toward languages. 1974R. A. Hall External Hist. Romance Lang. vii. 157 In other languages, however, such as Papiamentu, the dominant lexical influence in later centuries has come from a non-Romance language, in this case Dutch. 1976San Francisco Examiner & Chron. 13 June (Travel Suppl.) 8/3 Although Papiamento is spoken on radio and TV, and newspapers and books are printed in it, the official language on the island [sc. Aruba] is Dutch. |