Learned all about New Caledonia and the Darien Scheme today from a student who was a Spanish immigrant in Panama today. This was one of several colonies the Kingdom of Scotland possessed in the Americas, more than 80% of the settlers dying within the first year.

Dans les données de l'ALF, Jersey et Guernesey sont les seules localités de l'Ouest a avoir conservé un vocalisme dialectal dans le réflexe du latin pĕjor

Pire présente la réduction française de la triphtongue *-i̯ei̯-

En Bretagne romane et dans le Maine, on attendrait *përe

👀 bine -> ghine is amazing, like lingua -> limba but the other way around

A bit of Aromanian vocabulary for the week:

Tsi fats? – How are you?)
Ghine – I’m fine
Multu ghine – I’m doing very well
Ashi sh-ashi – So-so
Nu escu ghine – I’m not fine
Nu escu ahãt ghine – I’m doing very well
Niheam ghine – A little well
Slab - Bad

#languages #aromanian

Eth PSC prumèra fòrca en Aran enes eleccions ath Parlament de Catalunya.

An Aragonese spotify playlist for my morning walks.

Splann yw gweles ow modrep. Ni a yll kesklappya dres termyn hir...

Great to see my lovely aunt. We can chit chat for hours...

#kernewek #kernow #spayn #sussex #kent

Cette langue ne s'est jamais vraiment remise de la rupture linguistique du XXe siècle qui lui a fait perdre 80% de ses locuteurs. 'On a donné honte aux gens de ce qu'ils étaient', raconte Rozenn Milin, qui a consacré une partie de sa thèse à ce 'suicide linguistique'
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Hoping that one day the UK entry may be in one of the other languages of the country.

theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

Reality of a county run by Conservatives. My county, Kent, with a similar population to Northern Ireland, is underperforming.

Workers are underqualified, underskilled and underproductive compared to the rest of the country according to new report.

kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/coun…

Alex an Sows I do have a Devon/Cornish ancestral family connection and my brother lived in St Ives during the mid-90s so I used to spend a lot of time there. I still have a few Cornish related books from back then which you used to find outside the shops on racks for a couple of quid.

Tory MP for Dover and Deal defecting to Labour: Labour has accepted Brexit.

Sadly, this will be central to the next government.

Aragonese is currently fragmented into several closely related local varieties (grouped in 2, 3 or 4 dialects according to different authors). The most common formal name for the language, as it is locally, historically and internationally known, is aragonés (Aragonese).

The snowflakes are out in their droves repeating this little gem.

I remember the same lot gloating about ´democracy in action´ and ´sour grapes´ when reminded that only just over 36% of eligible voters voted leave.

Some Jèrriais vocab to wrap up Sunday:

👞 des soulièrs
👟des bliancs soulièrs
🧦des cauches
🧢eune castchette
🎩un chapé
👗eune robe
👔eune cravate
👕un t-corset
🥼eune c'mînse
🧤des gants

#jèrriais #langtwt #languages