Boontling, America's other language for (mostly) white people is dying....

[Bennyboy]

Boonville, Mendocino County --

Wes Smoot was bahl harpin' the other day with some kimmies at a gormin' region - i.e., chatting with pals at a restaurant - and nobody more than 4 feet away could understand what he was saying.

Soon, in all likelihood, nobody will understand any of the words he was using.

That's because the 80-year-old Smoot was speaking Boontling, one of just two homegrown languages in the United States - and it is close to becoming extinct.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Boonville-s-quirky-dialect-fading-away-4308006.php#ixzz2MJpo514h


I love going to AV Brewing where the whole deal is based on the language. maybe the beer and thebeer drinkers will keep it going.....

[upaloopa]

1. I suppose the native Americans spoke either English or

Bootling. Since those are the only home grown languages.
Our country's history doesn't begin with white settlements.

[MineralMan]

2. LOL!

Very well put!

[Fawke Em]

3. I'd think Sequoyah might have something to say about that.

[Berlum]

14. Catholic priest Diego de Landa (R) would love to have had a chance to burn that, too

The joy of burning books and destroying the culture of the Americas so the priests and soldiers and colonialists can claim all that was here was evil savagery. How revoltingly Republican was that?



http://www.examiner.com/article/the-maya-book-burning-event-of-july-12-1652

[hughee99]

5. I don't think English is a home grown language. n/t

[upaloopa]

7. It's not. My mistake. I use to be a docent at a

place where there were Native American pictographs. People on the tour were amazed to know that they were at least 3,000 years old. They think that American history began in the area when the Spanish Missions were built.

[hughee99]

9. This does have me interested, though. What's considered the "other"

homegrown language if they're excluding all the Native American languages (and I can't understand why they would)? All I can think of is Klingon.

[KamaAina]

13. Apparently, Appalachian English

"I never found another language as extensive as Boontling anywhere," said Adams, who specializes in linguistics. Appalachian English, spoken by Appalachian mountain folk in the Southeastern United States, is similar in scope - but nothing else, Adams said, approaches Boontling's homemade breadth with its 1,500-word vocabulary.

[upaloopa]

4. I think that is in CA if so Spanish was spoken there also

[Canuckistanian]

6. It's a jargon, not technically a language

But a very inventive one that seems to borrow and incorporate words very easily.

[MineralMan]

8. It's actually a dialect of English.

It's not really a full-blown language. The California teen dialect of the early 60s is gone, too, and good riddance to it. It really chungered the English language.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chunger

[KamaAina]

10. I horned some of their steinber just a couple of weeks ago

(drank some of their beer ) It is indeed bahl hornin'!



The brewery's annual Boonville Beer Festival is billed as "the biggest steinber hornin', chiggrel gormin' tidrick in the heelch of the Boont region". You're on your own; Google Translate doesn't offer Boont. Neither, for that matter, does Facebook. I think it'd be way cool if you could set your language to Boont the way you can Pirate. Ee-tah! (Arrrrr!)

Factoid: The Boontling word for preacher is -- skype. Truth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boontling

[Bennyboy]

12. Their fesrtival is a MUST DO for any beer lover..

Fun time for sure.Camping, disc golf and the stoniest beer event ever. One fo the events my beer crewe always gets a group going to...

[joeybee12]

11. Reminds me of this guy