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11 hours ago · According to an analysis by the Pew Research Center, the first use of latinx was documented more than 10 years ago, and the word was added to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, where it is defined as “a gender-neutral word for people of Latin American descent.” The dictionary explains: “The masculine/feminine binary is inherent in the ...
11 hours ago · Number of native speakers of each Romance language, as fractions of the total 690 million (2007) The Romance language most widely spoken natively today is Spanish, followed by Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian, which together cover a vast territory in Europe and beyond, and work as official and national languages in dozens of countries.
11 hours ago · The origin and history for this word, “tradition” as a noun, come from late 14c, from Old French tradición (late 13c.), from Latin traditionem (nominative traditio) “delivery, surrender, a handing down,” from traditus, past participle of tradere “to deliver, hand over,” from trans-over [to another] and dare, “to give.” The word ...
11 hours ago · The first Spanish settlement in the Americas was La Isabela in northern Hispaniola. This town was abandoned shortly after in favor of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, founded in 1496, the oldest American city of European foundation. This was the base from which the Spanish monarchy administered its new colonies and their expansion.
11 hours ago · Baruch ( de) Spinoza [b] (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. As a forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture ...
11 hours ago · The annual copper fair and national competition comprise multiple performances of (re)presentation and (re)production in which the coppersmith artisans assert agency, negotiate politics, and cultivate marketplaces. These performances recalibrate self-representation, community coherence, identity, and class assertion.
11 hours ago · A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ /, tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.
