Re: Borrowed words from Rumsien

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>> charos - black abalone
>/snip {venarre} list/
>> trutulun - turkey vulture
>> pinan - yellow jacket
>> potoruque - grown dwelling wasp
>> tomenxe - wolf
>> puchuche - wood-pecker
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>Beyoooootiful, *ahhhhhhh*, well except _trutulun_, I've never cared much
>for initial [tr]. Pity Rumsien is extinct. Are there any related
>languages that are still kickin'?
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Thanks!  Rumsien is a dialect of Costanoan, or Ohlone. I've heard it is
extinct. Which doesnt surprise me because most of the coastal indians were
wiped out, due to harsh treatment by the Spaniards, disease, mixing in
with settlers, etc. (apparently, the rumsien tribe has maybe a handful of
descendants who claim ancestry). It *is* a Penutian language, but i dont
think that would help any (like trying to recreate an extinct English by
looking at say.....Old German)

I think one of the things I like about Rumsien is that consonant clusters
aren't as common as it seems in other NA languages. I think it's more
pleasant sounding than say....Lakhota.