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Language Comparison: Papiamento vs Madurese
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Aspect | Papiamento | Madurese |
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Family | Creole | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 350,000 | Approximately 13.5 million |
Features | A Creole language spoken in the Caribbean, combining elements from Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, African languages, and Arawakan | A language with distinct phonetic features, such as a reduced vowel inventory and a preference for glottal stops; it exhibits a high degree of mutual unintelligibility with Javanese despite geographic proximity. |
Countries | Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire | Indonesia (primarily on Madura Island and in parts of East Java, including Surabaya and surrounding areas) |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script (modern use), previously Javanese and Pegon scripts (Arabic-derived script) |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses prepositions and word order to indicate relationships | No, uses prepositions and affixes to mark relationships |
Derived From | Portuguese-based Creole with significant influence from Spanish, Dutch, and African languages | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English | From Javanese, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Dutch |
Dialects | Minor differences between Papiamento spoken in Aruba (Papiamento) and Curaçao/Bonaire (Papiamentu) | Includes Bangkalan, Sumenep, and Pamekasan dialects, with significant lexical and phonological differences |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z | A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, W, Y, Z |
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