Papiamento

The economy is largely based on tourism so, to cater for this, many islanders speak four languages - Dutch, English, Spanish and the local Creole language, Papiamento.

Dive into Aruban cuisine with a meal under the trees at Papiamento, an upscale Aruban restaurant named for the local language.

Bogaerts’ ability to speak four languages — English and Spanish as well as Dutch and Papiamento, the languages of his native Aruba — enables him to easily act as clubhouse ambassador for new players.

Their descendants still speak a unique Creole language, Papiamento, the vernacular of all native Bonaireans.

Many times he stayed with her, speaking in Papiamento about chicken-head soup and other dainties of misery, and he would have kept right on if she had not let him know that his presence frightened off customers.