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This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. In the literature on the issue, widely diverging hypotheses have been advanced, but scholars have not come close to a consensus. The present study casts new and long-lasting light on the issue, putting forward compelling interdisciplinary evidence that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles of the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance (Senegal). Following
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- Author
- Jacobs, Bart , 1979-
- Publisher
- De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781614511076
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Romance, Education, Linguistics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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