A professor claims that Christopher Columbus was Catalan

A professor claims that Christopher Columbus was Catalan
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By h.b. - Oct 12, 2009 - 6:47 PM
A study of the language and grammar used in his letters leads the United States professor to consider the explorer as Catalan

Cover of the new book in Spanish

The debate on the origins of Christopher Columbus, or Cristóbal Colón as he is known in Spain, continues, with a new investigation claiming that the mariner was from the Ancient Kingdom of Aragón, and that he would have learnt the Catalan language before Spanish.

The claim comes in a new book ‘The DNA of the writings of Columbus’, by Professor Estelle Izizarry from Georgetown University in Washington.

She investigated from the starting point that the sailor did not express himself correctly in any language, describing his Spanish as notoriously incorrect but at the same time efficient, poetic and eloquent. Studying the lexicons of language she claims an objective method of finding his origins, and has concluded he was a Catalan speaking man from the Ancient Kingdom of Aragón.

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