Re: Linguistic contributions to Montreiano
From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
Date: | Friday, November 10, 2000, 13:52 |
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 23:25:38 -0800 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> I'm working on what languages I want to contribute to Montreiano
> (loanwords mostly, well, proably the only influence they have), and
> I'm
> thinking of using words from the Costanoan tribe that used to
> inhabit the
> Monterey Peninsula when the Spanish arrived. The tribe are the
> Rumsen. I
> pick them to be the source of the Costanoan loan words because they
> live where the city of Montrei was established.
-
Are the Montreianos still descended from Conversos? If so, you might
want to consider Ladino/Judezmo and Arabic as source languages for
borrowings.
-Stephen (Steg)
"2yn prysypyyv..."