WILLEMSTAD, Curaçao Thousands of languages spoken by small numbers of people, including many of the Creole languages born in the last centuries of human history, are facing extinction. But a ...
The word Papiamentu comes from the verb "papia", which means to speak. "mentu" is the suffix that forms the noun, denoting: "the way that something is done". Papiamentu translates into "the way of ...
This article originally appeared in Yiddish. As most Forward readers probably know, Yiddish and Hebrew are by far not the only Jewish languages. Jewish communities around the world once spoke or still ...
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