El objetivo principal de este artículo es rescatar del olvido algunas de las tradiciones populares más extendidas en cuanto a técnicas y métodos utilizados por los habitantes rurales del Sáhara Occidental (antiguo Sáhara Español) para la conservación, transporte y almacenamiento de alimentos básicos y necesarios para su subsistencia. El trabajo de campo, basado en fuentes orales, tiene un componente fundamentalmente cultural y lingüístico –el principal vehículo de comunicación es el dialecto árabe ḥassāniya–, aunque abarca, igualmente, aspectos antropológicos y etnológicos relacionados con las costumbres y tradiciones, casi ancestrales, de la población autóctona saharaui. El material lingüístico y terminológico aborda aspectos tales como los utensilios y recipientes destinados al transporte y la conservación de cereales, los recipientes para el transporte de productos líquidos y grasos, conservación de la miel, los dátiles, los higos, las carnes y el pescado, entre otros.

ResumenEste trabajo estudia unas construcciones que han recibida poca atencin en la bibliografa formadas por el artculo definido el ante oraciones subordinadas sustantivas introducidas por la conjuncin que.Pese a que la presencia del artculo no es obligatoria, se propone que cuando este aparece, se dan unos cambios sintcticos y semnticos en la subordinada.En concreto, se observar que el artculo puede insertarse en contextos no asertivos en los que la informacin de la oracin ya ha aparecido y est presupuesta en

This study focuses on describing the variations in the occurrence of vowels in various varieties of Standard Khasi and utilizing Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to illustrate their distribution on a geolinguistic map of Meghalaya in Northeast India.Standard Khasi is used as the standard reference language in this study.Standard Khasi is a member of the Mon Khmer family, a subbranch of the Austro-Asiatic language family spoken in the state of Meghalaya in Northeast India.The vowel variations, which include variations in the front, mid, and back vowels in the nucleus position, are uploaded to a GIS tool for methodically analyzing linguistic data, which generates a geolinguistic map displaying the variants' distribution.The main objective of this study is to compare corresponding forms of these varieties on the basis of the regions, with one variety characteristic present on one side of the isogloss and absent or different on the other.

The purpose of the research is to analyze the process of formation and evolution of zoonymic units on the materials of the Kazakh, Turkish and Uzbek languages.Linguistic, lexicographic and comparative methods were used to achieve the research goals.The results of the paper determined that the animal kingdom is a source of multiple metaphorical usage, since linguistic similarities have been established between the entities of the world and animals.For this reason, when comparing the Kazakh, Turkish and Uzbek languages, zoonyms have become an extremely important lexical component of the language picture of the world in the metaphorical field.Nouns denoting representatives of the fauna constituted an important part of the phraseological code presented in the fixed and lexicalized constructions of the Turkic world picture.Acquiring a new meaning, lexical units were not a semantic sum of language components, but their transformation using zoonyms.

In this paper, we investigate the linguistic identity of the diasporic population in East Midnapur also known as (Purba Medinipur), which is a border district under the administration of the Indian state of West Bengal.This region of West Bengal has a long history of cultural and linguistic contact with the neighbouring state-Odisha, and a significant number of the Odia diasporic population has been residing here for many generations.Our study focuses on the linguistic behaviour of this diasporic community, who portrays both the forced and spontaneous instances of assimilation (Guy, 2011).The community identifies itself with the homogenous Bengali identity, even though their variety still retains Odia influence significantly.Keeping in mind this complex linguistic identity that Purba Medinipur residents have, our research explores the hegemony of Bangla and the survival of linguistic adherence of Odia in the variety of languages that these speakers use.

ResumenEl mandarn, tambin conocido como 'chino moderno estndar' es una lengua pluricntrica, aparte de ser la lengua sintica ms importante, tanto en trminos de prestigio como en lo referente a nmero de hablantes.Como ocurre con la mayora de las lenguas pluricntricas, el mandarn tambin posee una variante dominante, el putonghua, es decir el estndar de la Repblica Popular China, y variantes no dominantes.En este trabajo nos centraremos en una de ellas, el mandarn singapurense, lengua cooficial de la Repblica de Singapur.Sirvindonos de la teora del pluricentrismo, intentaremos demonstrar que la variante en cuestin, al desarrollarse en un entorno perifrico y con unas caractersticas propias, es el resultado de dos fuerzas contrapuestas: un gradual acercamiento a la variante dominante y una paulatina toma de conciencia de que para representar la realidad del pas y vehicular la identidad local la lengua tiene necesariamente que alejarse -en algunos aspectos-de esa misma norma.

This paper aims to offer a comprehensive acoustic description of Aragonese Spanish.The analysis is based on spoken samples from 25 speakers of Aragonese Spanish.The current study includes an analysis of the phonetic characteristics of vowel, including diphthongs and triphthongs, of consonants and of prosody.Furthermore, the present paper also analyses the allophones of Aragonese Spanish and some phonetic processes, such as spirantization of voiced stops in intervocalic position and vowel nasalization.In the final section, the reader can find a phonetic and phonological transcription of a text.The present paper aims to provide detailed account of the phonetic structure of Aragonese Spanish in order to contribute to our understanding of phonetic variation in Spanish.