ORANJESTAD, Aruba – In this month in 2003, Aruba declared Papiamento — the most widely-spoken language on the Dutch Caribbean ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao — its official language.
Papiamento, a language spoken in the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, has been given the same status as Frisian as a European minority language, by the Council of Europe. Both languages now fall ...
This article originally appeared in Yiddish. As most Forward readers probably know, Yiddish and Hebrew are by far not the only Jewish languages. Jewish communities around the world once spoke or still ...