Valencian Language: History, Dialects, and Assembly Communication

The Valencian Language: A Historical Perspective

The Valencian language is a variant included within the western bloc of the language, alongside the U.S. occidental. It reached our land with the Catalans who inhabited the territory after the conquest of Valencia by James I. Valencian presents characteristic influences from the Arabic substrate.

Characteristics of Valencian

Phonetic Features

• Growing tendency to articulate the diphthong (UI).
• Maintenance of consonant clusters (nt, ng, lt).
• Loss of intervocalic (d).

Morphological Features

• Maintenance of three degrees of localization of the demonstration.
• Endings in (e) for the first person present tense.
• Endings in (now was anger).

Lexical Features

• Genuine lexicon.
• Lexicon of Arabic origin.
• Lexicon of Mozarabic origin.

Subdialects of Valencian

Northern Valencian (Castellonenc)

Characterized by the ending in (e).

Apitat Valencian

• The devoicing of (s).
• Neutralization of phonetics (BIV).

Southern Valencian

Spoken in the regions located below the Xucar river, featuring vowel harmony and the loss of 'd'.

The Assembly: Argumentative Discourse

An assembly is a type of organized oral communication for a scheduled meeting where a large number of people are involved. A topic is discussed among all participants to reach an agreement.

Key Elements of Assembly Argumentation

• Preparation: Includes reading and approval of the previous assembly's minutes.
• Organization: The assembly is organized into sections.
• Agenda: Contains topics to be discussed, fixed in advance and known to all attendees.
• Moderator: Organizes the assembly and proposes the intention of the assembly.
• Intervention: Participants must respect the speaker, provide convincing arguments, listen with interest and attention, and actively participate in voting.
• Voting: Participants vote to reach an agreement.
• Evaluation: Assesses whether the assembly was successful.

In argumentative discourse within an assembly, it is important for each participant to have counterarguments and provide arguments to defend their views. The intention of the assembly is for participants to reach an agreement through votes, whereas in a debate, this is not necessarily required.

Examples of Arabic Influence

The abundant place names are the most evident example of this influence. Examples include Alzira, Alfafar, and Benicarló, which are of Islamic origin, while Gorgos and Llombai are of Mozarabic origin.