My final weekend in #italia ! Of course I spent the day exploring here in #ischia island. I LOVE this place because it reminds me a bit of #Curacao, & its still a haze that I was blessed to live there for a while in the 90s dreaming of one day traveling the world. It got me further thinking of how far my family has gotten considering the origins of just the language itself. From Slavery to Glory! Here is a bit of a lesson on the language spoken there #Papiamento or #papiamentu via PapiaMentu.net The Proto-Afro-Portuguese creole theory is the most widely accepted hypothesis about the genesis of Papiamentu. After the Dutch conquest of Curaçao in 1634, Curaçao served as a slave depot that provided Spanish colonies with slaves. The importation of slaves started after the conquest of the Portuguese strongholds in Angola in 1641 by the Dutch, bringing slaves from mainly Guinea and Angola to Curaçao. The basic claim of this theory is that slaves learned the Afro-Portuguese during the long periods of time that they were kept in Afro-Portuguese speaking slave depots before they were shipped overseas. Initially, this theory assumed that all Atlantic Creole languages, including Papiamentu, derive from one language, namely the Afro-Portuguese pidgin-creole that originated as a result of the first encounter between Portuguese settlers and native inhabitants on the west coast of Africa. Currently, several variations of the Afro-Portuguese creole theory exist.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:44:01 +0000