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Papiamento

creole language spoken in the Dutch West Indies
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Summary

Papiamento is a language[1]. Papiamento ranks in the top 0.48% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,840 views/month, #27 of 5,611).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Aruba[3], Curaçao[4], Bonaire[5]
  • Instance of: creole[6], modern language[7], natural language[8]
  • Subclass of: Upper Guinea Creole[9]
  • Writing system: Latin script[10]
  • Part of: Portuguese-based creole languages[11], Spanish-based creole languages[12]
  • Commons category: Papiamento creole[13]
  • Wikimedia language code: pap[14]
  • Said to be the same as: Papiamento of curaçao[15]
  • Has part(s): Papiamento of Aruba[16], Papiamento of curaçao[17], Papiamento of Bonaire[18]
  • Coordinate location: 12.2, -69[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Papiamento[20]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 319,000[21], 321,300[22], 20,000[23], 115,000[24]
  • Native label: Papiamentu[25], Papiamento[26]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/PAP[27], https://apics-online.info/contributions/47[28], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133117715[29]
  • Ethnologue language status: 1 National[30]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wiki goes Caribbean[31]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Papiamento-language films[32]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: Obelepédia[33]

Why It Matters

Papiamento has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] Papiamento is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Related Entities

Aruba Curaçao Netherlands Willemstad

References

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · CROIX · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Distribution map → Mapa di papiamentu.svg
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Distribution map: ABCEilandenLocatie.PNG"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → Portuguese-based creole languages, Spanish-based creole languages
    Has part(s) → Papiamento of Aruba, Papiamento of curaçao, Papiamento of Bonaire
    Subclass of → —
    Has parts → —
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987012431002105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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