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📖 Papiamento is the native language of Aruba, Bonaire, & Curaçao, but smaller languages can disappear online as English & Spanish dominate.

Peter Scholing shares how the National Library of Aruba & the Internet Archive are preserving Papiamento's written & audiovisual heritage.

📚 Read "The Wind-Blown Language: Papiamento" in VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/113/

🛒 Purchase in print:
https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new

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Light grey-green graphic quoting Peter Scholing, Digital Librarian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the question "How do you keep a small island's culture alive when the world shuts down?" and the quote "Online access was not just expected... but became a basic necessity and a direct life-line for many people." Greenish-black graphic quoting Peter Scholing, Digital Librarian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "Small scale languages like Papiamento may be hard to find, and the traditional methods of language preservation are no longer sufficient."
Teal graphic quoting Peter Scholing, Digital Librarian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "During the global COVID-19 pandemic ... the library was able to meet this increased demand by rapidly operationalizing the 'short lines' that exist between them and local book authors and publishers."

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026) : Luca Messarra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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