Hi Roderick, Yes, you will find some people speaking papiamento on St. Maarten, but there they speak mostly English & Dutch. There were two other Islands missing, which are Saba and St. Eustatius, who also speak mostly english. You did your homework, very good. One thing Aruba is no longer with the Netherlands Antilles, they are on their own right now, but still linked with the Netherlands. Here's another link I think you'll enjoy....... http://www.curacao.com. This is where I live.
Best Regards Peter Damiana -----Original Message----- From: G. Roderick Singleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 16 februari 2007 9:49 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [native-lang] International Mother Language Day - 21 February In the Netherlands Antilles. The main islands are Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire but Paiamento may also be spoken on St Maartens. For a quick look see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles#Islands On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:47 +0100, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > Thanks for your answer Peter. Well, we at the NLC insist on being > language based and not country based (it solves so many political > issues), but please, do post a link where you live, I have to say that > I'm still sorry for not knowing where in the world Papiamento is > spoken... :-/ > > Best, > Charles. > > > Peter M. Damiana a écrit : > > Hi Charles, > > > > Slendid idea. +1 > > Just let me know when and where I should send my picture and perhaps > > a flag of my country?! ;-) > > > > Regards > > Peter Damiana > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Charles-H.Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: donderdag 15 februari 2007 14:50 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [native-lang] International Mother Language Day - 21 > > February > > > > Hello John, > > > > John McCreesh a écrit : > >> International Mother Language Day - 21 February - should be a day > >> of celebration for the Native Language Confederation. Through the > >> work of our Native Language Projects, OOo is helping to preserve > >> digitally endangered languages. What can you do in your language to > >> promote the work of OOo on 21st February? > >> > >> See: http://www.unesco.org/education/imld2007 > >> > >> It would be great if we could announce the arrival of new > >> languages, or the formation of new projects, or some statistics on > >> how much progress we made since International Mother Language Day > >> in 2006 > >> (2006-7 was dedicated to "Languages and Cyberspace"). Has anyone > >> any > > statistics? > >> All ideas welcome... > > > > I guess this was an idea of yours; but perhaps we could design a web > > page where everybody of the NLC would upload his/her picture ... > > Frappr might be a good idea. Anyone? > > > > Best, > > Charles. > >> John > >> > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
