Judaeo-Papiamento, or Jewish Papiamentu (Papiamento: Zjudeo-papiamentu), is an endangered Jewish language and an ethnolect of Papiamento spoken by the Sephardic Jewish community of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean. It is likely the only living Jewish ethnolect based on a creole language and the only one based on a language native to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Judaeo-Papiamento, or Jewish Papiamentu (Papiamento: Zjudeo-papiamentu), is an endangered Jewish language and an ethnolect of Papiamento spoken by the Sephardic Jewish community of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean. It is likely the only living Jewish ethnolect based on a creole language and the only one based on a language native to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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