Re: religious terms

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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