Re: [tied] Tok Pisin "pikinini" (was Re: Was proto-romance a pidgin

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:07:02 +0000, "Daniel J. Milton"
<dmilt1896@...> wrote:

> Sure. > Sp. 'pequeno nino' or Port. 'pequenino'. I suppose
>Portuguese is more likely if Eng. picked it up on the African coast
>and Spanish if in America.

Portuguese is more likely whether on the African, American, or, for
that matter, Indonesian coasts. Papiamentu, the Creole of the Dutch
Antilles (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao), even if the vocabulary is now
mainly of Spanish origin, was originally based on a Portuguese pidgin.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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