Proof the internet is the greatest thing ever happened to languages
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| User | Thread poster: Michael Jones Proof the internet is the greatest thing ever happened to languages |
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Michael Jones 
Australia
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I posted a comment a few weeks ago about how great the internet is for language diversity.
Well today I just blew myself away.
I was looking for some information about a word in the Tetum language, which is one of the two official languages of East Timor, the other being Portuguese. The word was "tratamentu".
Ok, forget that, I actually discovered a language I had never heard of before, a fantastic amalagam of European, African and American sources called Papiamento (or Papiamentu), spoken in the Carribean islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao (ABC, get it?).
Wow, I went through over 50 years of life without ever knowing about this.
Google it yourself, and enjoy.
| | | | Margreet Logmans
Netherlands
Member (2006)
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Funny, I've known about Papiamentu since I don't know when. Aruba et al being part of the Dutch colonies. At school, I was told to remember their names as the ABC-islands indeed. 
But I never knew about Tetum! Thanks!
| | | | Faruk Atabeyli
Turkey
English to Turkish
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| | Fabio Descalzi
Uruguay
Member (2004)
German to Spanish
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The translation workplace 
