The first people on Curaçao were called the Caquetío by the Spanish. They lived in today's Venezuela and parts of the Caribbean, but the people on Curaçao were all enslaved and deported to Hispaniola. Nothing of their language remains today, nothing was preserved. There are other Arawakan languages that have survived.
Today most people on Curaçao are descendant of slaves brought there by the Spanish and the Dutch, and the most spoken language is Papiamentu, which is a Creole of African languages, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, English, and Arawak languages.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caquetio
www.curacao.com/en/questions/culture/what-is-the-native-language-spoken-in-curacao
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