scholarly journals Bilingüismo y realidad sociolingüística de la lengua inga en Colombia / Bilingualism and Sociolinguistic Reality in the Inga Language of Colombia

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Maitena Etxebarria
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Language Awareness ◽  
The South ◽  
Community Members

The main goal of the research presented here is to study the Inga speech community. Inga is a Quechuan language, and its community is spread around the south of Colombia; the study tackles the features of language contact, Spanish/Inga or amongst any other languages known and used by the members of the community. We shall pay special attention to those communities around Sibundoy Valley (Putumayo), Atante (Nariño), Bota Caucana (Cauca), as well as to those already settled in the large Colombian urban areas such as Bogotá and Cali. Our main goal is to render an adequate characterization of this indigenous community: its territorial situation, its sociolinguistic characteristics, the degree and type of bilingualism amongst its members, the survival of the community members and of the language itself, the use and distribution of the language across communicative fields, especially in a context of diglosia, multilingualism and multiculturality typical of and intrinsic to Colombia, and the study of language awareness and sociolinguistic attitudes of this community.

scholarly journals Redefining Forro as a marker of identity: Language contact as a driving force for language maintenance among Santomeans in Portugal

Multilingua ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Eve Bouchard
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Group Code ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Changing Attitudes

AbstractIn São Tomé and Príncipe, the language shift toward Portuguese is resulting in the endangerment of the native creoles of the island. These languages have been considered of low value in Santomean society since the mid-twentieth century. But when Santomeans are members of a diaspora, their perceptions of these languages, especially Forro, change in terms of value and identity-marking. It is possible to observe such changes among the Santomeans who learn Forro when they are abroad, who use it as an in-group code, and start to value it more. In this article, I address the role of language contact in the maintenance and expansion of Forro. I investigate the mechanisms of language maintenance by focusing on the shifts in community members’ attitudes and beliefs regarding their languages, as a result of contact. The changing attitudes and beliefs have led to a redefinition of the role of Forro in the speech community. This qualitative study is based on semistructured interviews conducted on São Tomé Island and in Portugal. Findings suggest that the change in value attributed to Forro by Santomeans as a result of contact contribute to the valorization of the language.

scholarly journals Montenegrin-Albanian Linguistic Border: In Search of “Balanced Language Contact”

Slovene ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria S. Morozova ◽  
Alexander Yu. Rusakov
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Past ◽  
External Relations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contact Situation ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
The Village

The article aims to clarify the notion of “balanced language contact” and to model the situation of a language contact (in the present and the past) in one of the ethnically and linguistically mixed regions of the Montenegrin-Albanian linguistic border. The study focuses on the situation in the bilingual community of thevillageofVelja Gorana, located in the area of Mrkovići inSouthern Montenegro. The community of the village, as it seems at a first glance, provides a good example of a “balanced contact” situation. The language situation in Velja Gorana is described in the article as a set of micro-situations, or scenarios, developing on family and individual levels. Attention is paid not only to the communication in the family domain, but also to the external relations of the community members. Following on from this material, the authors attempt to develop a methodology for assessing the role of both languages in such communities in general, showing which factors influence individual linguistic behavior; how this behavior may change during an individual lifetime; how the different speakers’ strategies amalgamate in what can be considered as behavior of a multilingual speech community. Analyzing the information on the history of Velia Gorana, in particular, conducting a detailed examination of the origins, genealogies and marriage strategies of its families, allows the authors to reconstruct the mechanisms for the development of “linguistic exogamy” in the community of Velja Gorana and to make assumptions about the nature of the contact situation in this region in the past.

Predictive Model of Rainfall-Induced Landslides in High-Density Urban Areas of the South Primorsky Region (Russia)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Stepnova ◽  
A. A. Stepnov ◽  
A. V. Konovalov ◽  
Yu. V. Gensiorovskiy ◽  
V. A. Lobkina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Model ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
High Density ◽  
The South

scholarly journals Regional differences in the evolution of the merger of /ʃ/ and /ç/ in Luxembourgish

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
François Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
The South ◽  
Data Set ◽  
West Germanic ◽  
The North ◽  
Minimal Pairs ◽  
Old Men ◽  
Middle Generation

The merger of post-alveolar /ʃ/ and palatal /ç/ into alveolopalatal /ɕ/ has recently gained growing interest in sociophonetic research, especially in the Middle German dialect area. In Luxembourgish, a Continental West Germanic language, the sound change has been linked to age differences, while its origins remain unclear. Two studies with a regional focus are presented in this paper. The first study examines the merger in the Centre and the South of Luxembourg. The acoustic examination of both the spectral peak and the centre of gravity of a spoken data set of five minimal pairs embedded in read and orally translated sentences from 48 speakers (three generations (old generation, 65–91 years; middle generation, 40–64 years; young generation, 20–39 years; each generation, n = 16), men and women) reveals interesting results related to their regional background. In the old generation, the merger is further advanced in the speech of old men from the former mining region in the South compared to their peers in the Centre, the former leading this sound change. On the other hand, young speakers in both regions produce only alveolopalatal /ɕ/, the merger being complete in this generation. The second study presents exploratory data from the East and the North of the country. The analysis of this smaller sample (n = 6 speakers) reveals patterns similar to the central region. Pointing to language contact with Romance in the South as cradle and/or catalyser of the merger, these results not only give further clues as to the development in Luxembourg, but also add to a deeper understanding of sound changes in process in complex sibilant systems.

Prevalence and characterization of enteric adenoviruses in the South of Ireland

2007 ◽  
Vol 79 (10) ◽  
pp. 1518-1526 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Lennon ◽  
O. Cashman ◽  
K. Lane ◽  
B. Cryan ◽  
H. O'Shea
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Enteric Adenoviruses

scholarly journals First Characterization of Bacterial Pathogen, Vibrio alginolyticus, for Porites andrewsi White Syndrome in the South China Sea

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. e75425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xie Zhenyu ◽  
Ke Shaowen ◽  
Hu Chaoqun ◽  
Zhu Zhixiong ◽  
Wang Shifeng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Bacterial Pathogen ◽  
Vibrio Alginolyticus ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
White Syndrome ◽  
China Sea

Characterization of microbial communities in sediments of the South Yellow Sea

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Chen ◽  
Siqi Li ◽  
Xiaoqing Xu ◽  
Manman Ma ◽  
Tiezhu Mi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Yellow Sea ◽  
South Yellow Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
The South Yellow Sea

Genetic characterization of wild leguminous nodular bacteria living in the South Urals

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
An. Kh. Baimiev ◽  
E. S. Ivanova ◽  
K. G. Ptitsyn ◽  
A. A. Belimov ◽  
V. I. Safronova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Characterization ◽  
South Urals ◽  
The South
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