Papiamento, a language spoken in the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, has been given the same status as Frisian as a European minority language, by the Council of Europe. Both languages now fall ...

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 ...

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 ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 5 April 2023 Aruba observes freedom of the press, as guaranteed under Dutch law. The mostly widely-read newspapers are in the Papiamento ...

Aruba observes freedom of the press, as guaranteed under Dutch law. The mostly widely-read newspapers are in the Papiamento language. There are two commercial TV stations. A cable TV subscription ...