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Help with the french tongue

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Melvyn

Melvyn Report 14 Nov 2006 17:53

Can some kind person please translate a little bit of French for me please afrique septentrionale Thanks

Snowdrops in Bloom

Snowdrops in Bloom Report 14 Nov 2006 18:01

Here you go Melvyn - translated by my next door neighbour who is a French national It means Northern Africa. Hope it helps you.

English Bob

English Bob Report 14 Nov 2006 18:03

'The modern settlement of septentrional Africa is often forgotten in work on the assumption of the African origin of the modern Man, the discussions relating especially to the documents of Eastern and southern Africa. The analysis of the existing documents in the Maghreb, in the valley of the Nile and the Sahara however makes it possible to highlight a modern settlement to which affinities with that of the Close East were evoked on several occasions and whose origin, in certain geographical hearths could be rather old. In addition, a diversity of settlement appears as of the Paleolithic superior, between septentrional Africa and the Close East' The above is a quote from a geographical reference. I would presume that you have asked because of persons description, from where abouts or ethnicity. If so the phrase would be used to hint that the person was of North African/Mediteranean/Atlantic Islands origin. Regards, Bob

Melvyn

Melvyn Report 14 Nov 2006 19:22

Thanks to you both Sorry for the late thank you notice I had to do tea for the chief of the house