What is the principal language on the Galapagos Islands?
Arabic language influence on the Spanish language protectorate over Spanish Morocco in the 19th and 20th centuries, although these are of minor significance. The Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands has also adopted a small number of words from Hassaniya Arabic, principally from Canarian sailors who fish in proximity to the Saharan coast as well as by those Canarians who returned from Western Sahara after the Green March of 1975. The influence of Arabic on the Spanish language is fundamentally lexical but its other influences are also briefly examined in this article. It is estimated that there are about one thousand Arabic roots, and approximately three thousand
Galapagos hawk Galapagos hawk The Galapagos hawk ("Buteo galapagoensis") is a large hawk endemic to most of the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos hawk is similar in size to the red tailed hawk ("Buteo jamaicensis") and the Swainson's hawk ("Buteo swainsoni") of North America, but the size is variable across the islands as is recorded for many animals native to the Galapagos. They appear to be somewhat more heavily built than those well known mainland species, and going on average weights, this species is the second heaviest "Buteo" in the Americas, behind only the ferruginous hawk. The Galapagos hawk can range from in