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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..."