El Castellano - La página del idioma español
Lunes, 15 de marzo de 2010 - 12:21 GMT
«La milenaria historia de las palabras es el tercer tomo de un viaje inolvidable a través de los siglos y de los continentes en busca del origen más remoto de los términos que empleamos en nuestra vida cotidiana. Otro libro cautivante en el que se recogen los envíos de 'La palabra del día'». Pulse aquí
Un día como el de hoy, pero en 1493, Cristóbal Colón llegaba al puerto de Palos, de regreso de su primer viaje
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Bobby Hogg, 87, and his brother Gordon, 80, are believed to be the last fluent speakers of the "Cromarty fisher dialect", that is said to be the most threatened dialect in Scotland and is to be recorded for an internet-bases cultural archive. 
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The factual errors and the atrocious translations into Spanish of certain programs on The History Channel, one of many supposedly "cultural" channels, represent a true threat to history. Columnist Jorge Abbondanza from the daily El País explains how the channel spreads its drivel across the globe. 
Ladino or Judeo-Spanish, the language of the Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492, survives in Turkey today, a relic of XV century Spanish. Five centuries after the emigration of the Jews, however, the language's existence is threatened by the national language, Turkish.Asociación Cultural Antonio de Nebrija - © 1996-2008 - Derechos Reservados / Editor: Ricardo Soca
