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Papiamentu

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Portuguese dia (“day”) +‎ Portuguese ração (“ration”) or Dutch rantsoen (“ration”). Slaves received weekly rations on Wednesdays.^[1]^[2]

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^ Gary C. Fouse (2007), “Slavery and the Development of Papiamentu”, in Journal of Caribbean Literatures, volume 5, number 1, →JSTOR, page 61
^ Bart Jacobs (2012), Origins of a Creole: The History of Papiamentu and Its African Ties, Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 59