Editing Aruba (section)

===Language===
{{main|Languages of Aruba|Caquetío language|List of newspapers in Aruba}}
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}}Aruba is a multilingual society.<ref>{{Cite web |title=(PDF) Language and education in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300471435_Language_and_education_in_Aruba_Bonaire_and_Curacao |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250320070900/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300471435_Language_and_education_in_Aruba_Bonaire_and_Curacao |archive-date=20 March 2025 |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=ResearchGate |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref> The Official languages are [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and [[Papiamento]]. While Dutch is the sole language for all administration and legal matters,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dutchcaribbeanlegalportal.com/about-us/the-dutch-caribbean |title=About Us |website=DutchCaribbeanLegalPortal.com |access-date=20 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620052254/http://www.dutchcaribbeanlegalportal.com/about-us/the-dutch-caribbean |archive-date=20 June 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> Papiamento is the predominant language used in Aruba. Papiamento is a [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]/[[Spanish language|Spanish]] based [[creole language]], spoken on Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao that also incorporates words from the [[Caquetío language|Caquetio]] language, Dutch, various West African languages and English.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aruba, Our History and Culture |url=https://www.aruba.com/us/our-island/history-and-culture/papiamento}}</ref> English and Spanish are also widely spoken on the island, their usage having grown due to tourism and immigration.<ref name="Britannica"/><ref name="autogenerated2"/> Other common languages spoken, based on the size of their community, include Portuguese, Cantonese, French and German.

In recent years, the government has shown an increased interest in acknowledging the cultural and historical importance of Papiamento. Although spoken Papiamento is fairly similar among the several Papiamento-speaking islands, the [[Papiamento orthography|orthography differs per island]], with Aruba using etymological spelling (Papiamento), and Curaçao and Bonaire a phonetic spelling (Papiamentu).

The book ''[[History of the Buccaneers of America|Buccaneers of America]]'', first published in 1678, states through eyewitness account that the natives on Aruba spoke Spanish already.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of Aruba in Timeline - Popular Timelines|url=https://populartimelines.com/t/690/Aruba|website=populartimelines.com|language=en|access-date=2020-05-29}}</ref> Spanish became an important language in the 18th century due to the close economic ties with Spanish colonies in what are now Venezuela and Colombia.<ref>Dede pikiña ku su bisiña: Papiamentu-Nederlands en de onverwerkt verleden tijd. van Putte, Florimon., 1999. Zutphen: de Walburg Pers</ref> Venezuelan TV networks are received on the island, and there are significant communities of Venezuelans and Colombians on Aruba.<ref name=CIAFactBook>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/aruba/#people-and-society|website=www.CIA.gov/the-world-factbook|title=Aruba-People and Society|year=2022|author=CIA.gov|access-date=21 October 2022}}</ref> Around 13% of the population today speaks Spanish natively.<ref name=cia>{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Aruba|access-date=6 June 2011}}</ref> Use of English dates to the early 19th century, when the British ruled Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire. When Dutch rule resumed in 1815, officials already noted wide use of the language.<ref name="Putte">''Dede pikiña ku su bisiña: Papiamentu-Nederlands en de onverwerkt verleden tijd''. van Putte, Florimon., 1999. Zutphen: de Walburg Pers</ref> There is also a little studied native variety of [[English Creole]] spoken in [[San Nicolaas]], known as [[San Nicolaas English]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.academia.edu/26789758 | title=The English Creole of Aruba: A Community-Based Description of the San Nicolas Variety | last1=Devonish | first1=Hubert | last2=Richardson | first2=Gregory }}</ref>

Aruba has newspapers published in Papiamento: ''[[Diario (Aruba)|Diario]]'', ''Bon Dia'', ''Solo di Pueblo'', and ''Awe Mainta''; English: ''Aruba Daily'', ''Aruba Today'', and ''The News''; and Dutch: ''[[Amigoe]]''. There are 18 radio stations (two AM and sixteen FM) and two local television stations ([[Telearuba]] and Channel 22).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aruba - arubanoasis|url=http://www.arubanoasis.com/about/aruba|website=arubanoasis.com|access-date=2020-05-29|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726100325/http://www.arubanoasis.com/about/aruba|url-status=dead}}</ref>