Re: Pidgin Gothic (Was: Re: New Lang, but Just For Fun)

> rnierse@anwb.nl writes:
> >(e.g. 'tea' comes from Turkish?)
> Sorry I can't really help you too much, but "tea" actually comes from the
> Amoy dialect of Chinese (yeah, i know, dialect, language, a fine line when
> dealing with china). The Amoy word is t'e, in Mandarin it is "Ch'a"*
> * tea in Tagalog is "tsa", probably from Chinese as well.
I believe Amoy dialect is "de4". Unvoiced, unaspirated.
"Cha2" is Mandarin. Tagalog? You're on your own.

Kou