By adrien bagarry (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 5:54 pm: |
"Bon dia"
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By michael gaynor (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3631) on Friday, April 3, 2009 - 8:56 am: |
You give us to much credit! Our language, based in Portuguese, is from the Cape Vere Islands of West Africa. We have a small amount of tomes written by local historians, etc. and a dictionary which just was released in its third edition and that is about it. You may want to consider doing a joint study as related to former and current Dutch possessions and their languages, ie. Bonaire, Aruba and Curacao for papiamentu, Saba, Statia, St. Marteen for their English patois and Surinam (you former neighbor) for taki taki. I am sure there is a lot of material but I doubt there is any money to support research.
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By lucas leblanc (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #6) on Monday, April 6, 2009 - 11:44 pm: |
Adrien,
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By Kate Hickson (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #278) on Sunday, May 3, 2009 - 5:15 pm: |
Adrien-
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By michael gaynor (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3673) on Monday, May 4, 2009 - 3:56 pm: |
Papiamentu has a lot of Portuguese in it since it had a root in Cape Verde.
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By adrien bagarry (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #2) on Monday, May 4, 2009 - 5:03 pm: |
Thank you for answering me. The references could help me a lot.
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By Kate Hickson (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #279) on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 8:05 am: |
Adrien-
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By brianna sel (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Sunday, January 17, 2010 - 9:55 pm: |
how do you say "i love bonaire" in papiamentu ?
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By michael gaynor (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3978) on Monday, January 18, 2010 - 3:04 pm: |
Mi stima boneiru
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By brianna sel (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #2) on Monday, January 18, 2010 - 3:53 pm: |
is Mi stima boneiru the correct spelling and everything? are there any tone marks?
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By Pietri Hausmann (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #343) on Monday, January 18, 2010 - 6:55 pm: |
mi ta stima boneiru
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By michael gaynor (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3981) on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 10:08 am: |
sorry Pietri, but most Bonarieans leave out the ta..I checked before I made my commitment.
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By michael gaynor (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3982) on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 10:25 am: |
further clarification if you will: In Curacao, the would say Mi ta..in Bonaire they leave it out. Either way, the sentiment is the same..
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By Pietri Hausmann (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #344) on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 4:12 pm: |
i checked it out too .. so both are correct ..just depends...sometimes there is a variation between Playa and rincon ...it's all in the fun of learning the language .. i must be influenced by korsow/curacao ..
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