Waarom schrijft u? Waarom schrijft u in het Nederlands?

Four languages are used daily on the six islands that comprise the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba and form part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: the national languages English and Papiamento (an interlanguage based upon Dutch, English, Portuguese and Spanish), the Dutch of the Kingdom and the regional language, Spanish. Each of these four languages has a literary tradition on the islands. Although Dutch is still the official language and used as the language of school instruction and the written language of business its wider functions have diminished. Over the past decades the language has... Mehr ...