#atlas lingüístico de la península ibérica

[trenstrenats]

okay so this is very niche and no one's gonna get it but this is my blog so whatever

if noel gets sent to spain and we know nothing of when he was sent to, i think it's safe to assume he's still in 1934-1935. and you know what was happening in spain from 1931 to 1936? when the civil war started and all academics had to flee?

linguists were gathering information for a phonetic atlas (ALPI). so essentially they went around asking a bunch of people how they say these specific 45 words, and they asked everywhere. so in the end you get a map of how the people from the north say 'water' differently from the people on the south. and the funny thing is that in the iberian peninsula there's quite the handful of languages so you can see a lot of change as a continuum (there's not a clear border between languages)

but on top of all that overall change, noel is in there somewhere. and i just think it's so funny that if they asked him, the list from the region he appeared in would look something like this:

abeja [ɜˈβɛʎɜ]

abeja [ˈbeʎɜ]

abeja [aˈβeʎɐ]

abeja [bi:]

abeja [əˈβɜʎɜ]