Jabal al-Lughat

Climbing the Mountain of Languages

Showing posts with label Romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romance. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Spengler and morphology

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While Spengler is better known for his efforts (in Decline of the West ) to establish a historical morphology of cultures, he also briefly b...
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Sunday, May 21, 2017

Latin-speaking Muslims in medieval Africa

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In the Middle Ages as today, Christians and Jews regularly called God "Allah" when speaking Arabic, just as Muslims did . It is ...
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Thursday, February 09, 2017

Romance languages in 17th century North Africa

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In 1609, 117 years after conquering Granada, the Spanish state decreed the expulsion of all "Moriscos" - that is, everyone descend...
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Friday, November 04, 2016

Lingua Franca and Sabir in "Four Months in Algeria" (1859)

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I recently finished reading Four Months in Algeria , a travel diary by the English Rev. J. W. Blakesley published in 1859. It's mostly...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Lunja in Sicily, and more Lunja from Dellys

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I've now read quite a few Lunja stories , enough to say that there is in fact a core Lunja story which is virtually identical in the mou...
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Saturday, November 02, 2013

Lingua franca / Sabir

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Mi star trovato un bonu libro sopra il sabir: Dictionnaire de la langue franque ou petit mauresque . Avanti l'attaca del Fransis, l...
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