Just in case you haven't found it yet, there's a ton of content in Papiamento online here, which seems to be the YouTube account for a tv station in Curaçao:





The Past Tense

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The Past Tense

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The Past Tense

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Wikipedia, ta un proyekto di komunidat ku e meta pa krea un ensiklopedia, den tur idioma, riba internèt. E Wikipedia na papiamentu te ainda tin 311 artíkulo.



E proyekto akí ta habrí, esei ta nifiká ku tur hende por kontribuí na e proyekto akí. Aktualmente nos ta buskando hende ku den nan tempu liber por traha artíkulo i asina kontribuí na e Wikipedia na papiamentu. Tambe por tradusí artíkulo for di un otro idioma den wikipedia na papiamentu.



E Wikipedia na papiamentu ta ofisial desde 26 di mart 2006.

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Basically, Papiamentu is a creole composed of a lot of Portuguese, some Spanish (but since the two languages are so similar it's often impossible to tell if a word has come from one or the other) and some Dutch as well, since Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire are officially a part of the Netherlands.Since it's a creole that means its vocabulary is mostly from these languages but the grammar is ridiculously easy in comparison, making Papiamento the language you wish you had had to learn in high school instead of Spanish:Most verbs are conjugated by means of the word: (present tense)This is in fact an abbreviation of the Spanish Present Participle: EstarI am - Mi taYou are - Bo taHe is She is It is - E taWe are - Nos taYou are - Boso taThey are - Nan taI was / I have been = Mi tawataI am glad = Mi ta contentoI am happy = Mi ta felizI go = Mi ta bayto go = bayI have - Mi tinYou have - Bo tinHe has She has It has - E tinWe have - Nos tinYou have - Boso tinThey have - Nan tinI had / I have had = Mi tawata tinI have money = Mi tin placamoney = placaI can - Mi porYou can - Bo porHe can She can It can - E porWe can - Nos porYou can - Boso porThey can - Nan porI could / I could have = Mi tawata porI can dance = Mi por bailato dance = bailaWell, that was easy.One other good thing about Papiamento is that it's located in a stable part of the world with a relatively good economy, unlike some other creoles like in Haiti, the Solomon Islands, and so on. It also has a nice mix of both Romance and Germanic languages, and for us Idists it's nice because it looks a lot like Ido. Here's an example from the main page on their Wikipedia:Back to the main subject: there's a ton of content in Papiamento online at that channel, including such videos as these:ALCALA-CENTRO PRO ARTE(something about the government coming to a decision to make the art centre possible)and:JULIEN LOPES RAMIRES DROGA 2007Duana a konfiská un total di 723 kilo droga den 2007 i 9000(this one's about a drug raid)They also have an official website here I plan to do another "compare language X to Latin" with Papiamento to see how much it could appeal to the Latin revivalist movement, and with a comparison to Ido as well to see which is closer.