Re: religious terms

When I was in Seville, I ate at a Chinese restaurant where the owners told
me that most of the Chinese in the area were from Zhejiang - friends of
relatives of friends, you know that kind of thing.  I don't know whether
they meant just Seville or southern Spain in general, though, and I don't
know if the current immigrant situation in Spain would be relevant to
Montreiano speakers.  Also, according to
http://www.magma.ca/~mtooker/cities/zhejiang.htm , Zhejiang is at a
confluence of three major dialect areas, so I guess you might as well go
with one of those dialects instead.  I'm just curious why your fishing
terms should come from Chinese ... any specific reason?

E-Ching


At 05:20 AM 3/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I believe the historic Chinese population in the Monterey area was indeed
>Cantonese speaking.  Almost all the early immigration to the Americas was
>from Cantonese speaking areas.  The other dialects you might want to look at
>are the Fujian dialects (Hokkien, Taiwanese, Amoy) and Hakka since these
>groups are the other major groups of overseas Chinese (at least until recent
>years).  But the Fujian and Hakka speakers settled, mostly, in other parts
>of Asia.
>
>Adam
>
>>From: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
>>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>>Subject: religious terms
>>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:28:07 -0800
>>
>>I'm starting to work on Montreiano again a bit (been so busy), and since i
>>have it designed that this is a language former Jews and Muslims from
>>spain spoke, i am unsure as to which religious words to incorporate into
>>the language. Of course, similar words from arabic as in Castillian will
>>be used, but i'd like the religious terms to stem from Arabic and Hebrew.
>>Naturally, being catholic, there would still be a lot of latin terms used,
>>but i'm still quite unsure as to where to go.
>>
>>Also, i'm thinking a lot of fishing terms would be from Chinese, but
>>unsure as to which language........Cantonese maybe?
>>
>>Anyway...
>
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