Papiamentu and the Brazilian Connection Established through the Sephardic Jews
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https://doi.org/10.15359/rl.1-67.4Keywords:
Papiamentu, Brazilian Portuguese, origins of Papiamentu, Sephardic JewAbstract
This study examines the linguistic contact between Papiamentu and Brazilian Portuguese established when the Sephardic Jews were expelled from Dutch Brazil and some of them relocated in Curaçao. Three lexical items of PA (yaya, ‘nanny, nursemaid’; bacoba, ‘banana’; and fulabola‘fore nger, index nger’) are analysed and put into their historical contextto show that their presence in Papiamentu can be attributed to the contact between Brazil and Curaçao due to the forced migration of the Sephardic Jews and their servants.
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