Frontmatter -- Table of Contents / Tabla di Kontenido -- How to Navigate This Book / Kon Nabegá den e Buki akí -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part 1 Introducing the Mother Tongue / Introdukshon di Lenga di Mama -- Papiamento and Guene/Gueni : The Importance of Translation and Poetry for the Development and Conservation of Mother Tongue / Papiamentu i Guene/Gueni: E Importansia di Tradukshon i Poesia pa Desaroyo i Konservashon di Lenga di Mama -- Part 2 The Poem "Lenga di Mama" and its Transl ations , Comments and Language Descriptions / E Poema "Lenga di Mama" i su Tradukshonnan i Komentario i Deskripshon di e Idiomanan -- Creole Languages /Idioma. Krioyo Pieter C. Muysken. Jamaican Creole -- African and Asian Languages Idioma Afrikano i Asiátiko -- Amerindian Languages Idioma Amerindio -- Constructed Languages Idioma Konstruí -- Germanic Languages Idioma Germániko -- Romance Languages Idioma Romániko -- Other Indo-European Languages Otro Idiomanan Indo-Europeo -- Other Languages of Europe / Otro idiomanan di Europa -- Semitic Languages / Idioma Semítiko -- Part 3 The Poem "E 'papiá' di Papiamentu" and its Translations / E Poema "E 'papiá' di Papiamentu" i su Tradukshonnan -- Part 4 The Poem "Papiamentu pa Semper" and its Translations / E Poema "Papiamentu pa Semper" i su Tradukshonnan -- Part 5 The Poem "Riba Ala di Lenga di Mama" and its Translations / E Poema "Riba Ala di Lenga di Mama" i su Tradukshonnan -- Part 6 Commentary Komentario -- Translation, Language Endangerment and Revitalization, Bilingual Texts Tradukshon, Peliger pa Pèrdida di idioma i Revitalisashon di Idioma, Teksto Bilingual -- In Memoriam Professor Dr. Pieter C. Muysken / Na Memoria di Profesor Dr. Pieter C. Muysken -- Special Thanks Also / Un Danki Speshal Tambe -- Note on the Authors / Informashon tokante e Outornan -- Index