Bilingualism and language attitude in Melilla (Spain)

This study examines levels of bilingualism and language attitude in the autonomous Spanish city of Melilla. Located on the North African coast, Melilla has a population of 86,000 inhabitants that is roughly divided between residents of Iberian origin and residents of North African Origin. Based on responses to a language questionnaire (111 participants) and sociolinguistic interviews (20 participants), our results show high levels of bilingualism between Spanish and Tamazight among the sector of the population that is of North African origin, while the population of Iberian origin remains monolingual in Spanish. We also show that Spanish is the dominant language in the public domain, including administration and education, while Tamazight is maintained as a family and community language. Overall, the participants in our study express positive attitude towards the Melillan variety of Spanish and Tamazight, and their co-existence as part of the multicultural nature of the city.

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An isolated population of Podarcis vaucheri (Sauria: Lacertidae) in south-eastern Spain: genetic data suggest human-mediated range expansion

Amphibia-Reptilia ◽

10.1163/156853810791069074 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 287-293 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Menad Beddek ◽

Julien Renoult ◽

Philippe Geniez ◽

Pierre-André Crochet

Keyword(s):

Mitochondrial Dna ◽

Phenotypic Plasticity ◽

Genetic Data ◽

Isolated Population ◽

African Origin ◽

North African ◽

Dna Analyses ◽

The North ◽

North African Origin ◽

Phenotypic Convergence

AbstractIn this study, we investigate the identity and origin of a population of Iberian Wall Lizards (Podarcis hispanicus complex) that we recently discovered inside the distribution range of the nominotypical form P. hispanicus. In the field, these animals were clearly identified as different from this species but their identity remained problematic. Using morphological and mitochondrial DNA analyses, we here identify this population as P. vaucheri, which constitutes a significant range extension for this species. Molecular results suggest a North African origin to this population. However, according to morphological results, these individuals are closer to the Spanish morphotype than to the North African morphotypes of P. vaucheri. Taken together, these results suggest a human-mediated introduction as the origin of this population, with local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity responsible of phenotypic convergence.

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Two “Mothers” in 5 Ezra 2:1-32

Vigiliae Christianae ◽

10.1163/15700720-12341415 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 73 (4) ◽

pp. 440-462

Author(s):

Theodore A. Bergren

Keyword(s):

African Origin ◽

North African ◽

Christian Church ◽

Early Christian ◽

Main Thesis ◽

The City ◽

Church Mother ◽

North African Origin

Abstract The early Christian apocryphon 5 Ezra (2 Esdras) 2:1-32 describes two distinct but unidentified “mothers.” The first (2:1-7) is desolate, forlorn, and consigned to “destruction”; the second (2:15-32) is encouraged, glorified, and triumphant. It is generally recognized that the first “mother” represents the city of Jerusalem, “Mother Jerusalem.” The identity of and literary/thematic inspiration(s) behind the second “mother,” however, are uncertain. The main thesis of this paper is that the “mother” in 2:15-32 represents the Christian church, “Mother Church.” The primary evidence for this identification is the remarkable thematic and verbal parallels between 5 Ezra’s descriptions of the “mother” and the characterizations of “Mother Church” in the writings of Cyprian. Furthermore, the writings of Zeno of Verona and Lactantius contain lists of Christian ecclesiastical “works of mercy” that are close to 5 Ezra 2:20-22. Our findings suggest that 5 Ezra is a post-250 Latin composition of North African origin.

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On the Mizraḥi Sociolect in Israel: A Sociolexical Consideration of the Hebrew of Israelis of North African Origin

Journal of Jewish Languages ◽

10.1163/22134638-12340017 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 207-227 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yehudit Henshke

Keyword(s):

African Origin ◽

North African ◽

The North ◽

North And South ◽

North African Origin

Abstract This article addresses lexical features of the speech of native-born Hebrew-speaking Israelis from the geographic and socioeconomic periphery (i.e., moshavim, cities, and development towns in the north and south of Israel). Study of their language shows that their Hebrew incorporates a fair number of Judeo-Arabic words belonging to meaningful categories, such as foods, customs, beliefs, holidays, and nicknames, among others. These words are distinctively different from the Arabic words interpolated in Modern Israeli Hebrew, which derive from the local Arabic dialect. The findings demonstrate the existence of a Hebrew sociolect grounded in Judeo-Arabic and typical of a specific sociogeographic sector.

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Memories of a French Migration Crisis

The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.013.15 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 56-72

Author(s):

Laura Jeanne Sims

Keyword(s):

Algerian War ◽

African Origin ◽

North African ◽

Structural Racism ◽

Internment Camps ◽

Collective Memories ◽

War Of Independence ◽

Algerian War Of Independence ◽

Migration Crisis ◽

North African Origin

This chapter examines how the French state created a crisis through its management of the arrival and installation of the Harkis in 1962. The Harkis, Algerians of North African origin who supported the French army during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), faced reprisal violence in Algeria at the end of the war and many were forced to migrate with their families to France. In response, French officials attempted to prevent the Harkis from escaping to France and placed some of those who succeeded in internment camps. Comparing the treatment of the Harkis with that of the Pieds-Noirs, the descendants of European settlers in Algeria who likewise fled to France in 1962, highlights the structural racism underlying French perceptions of and reactions to Harki migration. This chapter also explores the ways in which second-generation Harkis have constructed collective memories of the crisis and their attempts to hold the state responsible for its actions.

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ANALYSIS ON 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MONUMENT TO HEROES AS A TOOL FOR A CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH IN THE PATRIMONIZATION AND EVALUATION OF CULTURAL INTEREST GOODS

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w17-279-2019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol XLII-2/W17 ◽

pp. 279-286

Author(s):

M. I. Rodriguez-Laiton ◽

H. A. León-Vega ◽

E. Upegui

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Low Cost ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

The Public ◽

Future Developments ◽

The North ◽

North Side ◽

Starting Point ◽

Simon Bolivar ◽

The City

Abstract. The following article describes the implementation of a methodology for the structural reconstruction of the Heroes monument and the statue on the north side of Simon Bolivar Ecuestre located between the intersection of the north highway and 80th Street in Bogota (Colombia) from the acquisition of SFM photogrammetry methods and images, using low-cost sensors for this process and making use of drones from the obtaining of frames of a video to for areas with lower altimetric reach, and thereby creating an analysis in their accuracy, sizing and quality within the framework of appropriation and documentation of the cultural assets in the public space of the city Bogotá taking this data as a starting point for future developments in the process of 3D reconstructions Colombia.

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Perinatal outcomes of immigrant women of Turkish, Middle Eastern and North African origin in Berlin, Germany: a comparison of two time periods

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics ◽

10.1007/s00404-013-2986-6 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 289 (3) ◽

pp. 505-512 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Jacob Spallek ◽

Jessica Lehnhardt ◽

Anna Reeske ◽

Oliver Razum ◽

Matthias David

Keyword(s):

Immigrant Women ◽

Middle Eastern ◽

Perinatal Outcomes ◽

African Origin ◽

North African ◽

Time Periods ◽

North African Origin

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Liquid Labyrinths

Ireland, Literature, and the Coast ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198857877.003.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 149-170

Author(s):

Nicholas Allen

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Cultural Production ◽

Medbh Mcguckian ◽

The Public ◽

The Troubles ◽

The North ◽

Public Consciousness ◽

Ciaran Carson ◽

The City ◽

Northern Star

Stewart Parker’s play, Northern Star, begins with the character of Henry Joy McCracken reciting his seaborn heritage as a descendant of Huguenots and Covenanters, his mongrel inheritance ‘natural’ to his Belfast birth, the city a port of refuge from ‘the storm of history’. McCracken is remembered now as a United Irishman who was executed for his part in the 1798 rebellion, an insurrection that lingers still in the public consciousness of the city and its past. Northern Star was first performed in 1984 and through it Parker created a space for expressions of identity and place beyond the Troubles; that he did so in metaphors of storms and sea suggests the imaginative depth of the city’s maritime attachments, which form the basis of this chapter’s readings of mid-twentieth-century cultural production in the north of Ireland, including Seamus Deane, Medbh McGuckian, Sinead Morrissey, Glenn Patterson, and Ciaran Carson.

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Waterfront as the Public Space of the City - Research on the Waterfront Park of the North Bund in Shanghai

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.807-809.1733 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 807-809 ◽

pp. 1733-1736 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Chun Xia Yang ◽

Wei Shang ◽

Stefania Rusconi ◽

Beatrice Anne Bruneaux

Keyword(s):

Landscape Ecology ◽

Public Space ◽

Urban Design ◽

Environmental Resources ◽

Waterfront Development ◽

The Public ◽

Future Design ◽

The North ◽

The Future ◽

The City

The waterfront development in China faces the problems of landscape, ecology and sustainability. According to the research of the waterfront park in the North Bund of Shanghai, this paper discusses the main issues from the view of urban design and gives possible countermeasures for the future design. In order to make full use of the environmental resources, we should build a connection between the waterfront and the inside city, and provide more opportunities for individuals to keep closing to water.

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The Roman and Byzantine Defences of Lepcis Magna

Papers of the British School at Rome ◽

10.1017/s0068246200006425 ◽

1953 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

pp. 42-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

R. G. Goodchild ◽

J. B. Ward Perkins

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

North African ◽

The North ◽

Ground Survey ◽

Ancient City ◽

Preliminary Study ◽

Epigraphic Evidence ◽

The City

During the North African campaigns of 1941–3 numerous air-photographs of the Tripolitanian coast were taken by the R.A.F. for operational purposes, and the site of Lepcis Magna was included in the area covered. Examination of these photographs (pl. XV) showed many suggestive features relating to the defences of the ancient city, and a preliminary ground survey was later (1947–50) undertaken to establish, with a minimum of excavation, the course of the successive wall-circuits.The results of this investigation are described below, and are discussed in relation to the historical and epigraphic evidence. It is not claimed that these results are exhaustive, or that they will not need modification in the light of future discoveries. Since, however, there is little likelihood of any early resumption of large-scale excavations at Lepcis, this preliminary study may help to illustrate the growth and subsequent decline of the city that came to be the most important centre between Carthage and Alexandria.

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