Language use, language attitudes and identity on Bonaire.

In this article we report on a survey that was conducted on Bonaire, one of the six Caribbean islands that were formerly known as the Netherlands Antilles. The majority of the Bonairean population speaks Papiamentu, a Spanish/Portuguese lexifier creole, as their mother tongue. Dutch used to be the only officially recognized language on the island up until 2007, when the Netherlands Antilles recognized Papiamentu and English as co-official languages besides Dutch. Since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on October 10 of 2010, Bonaire has adopted a new political status as an exceptiona... Mehr ...