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Language Comparison: Papiamento vs Makassar
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Aspect | Papiamento | Makassar |
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Family | Creole | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 350,000 | Approximately 2.1 million |
Features | A Creole language spoken in the Caribbean, combining elements from Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, African languages, and Arawakan | Agglutinative language with extensive use of affixes to indicate grammatical relationships and meaning. |
Countries | Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire | Indonesia (primarily in South Sulawesi, especially in Makassar City and surrounding areas) |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script (modern use), Lontara script (traditional use) |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses prepositions and word order to indicate relationships | No, uses prepositions and affixes to indicate grammatical 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 Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Dutch |
Dialects | Minor differences between Papiamento spoken in Aruba (Papiamento) and Curaçao/Bonaire (Papiamentu) | Includes dialectal variations such as Turatea, Konjo, and Selayar |
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, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, NG, NY, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
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