Social:Floridan Menorcan
| Floridan | |
|---|---|
| St. Augustine, Mahonese | |
| menorquí | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | St. Augustine, Florida |
| Ethnicity | Florida Minorcans |
| Extinct | late 19th century[1] |
Indo-European
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Early forms | Old Latin
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| Catalan | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Florida Menorcan (also known as Mahonian or St. Augustine Menorcan)[2][3] was the linguistic variety of the Menorcan dialect of Catalan spoken in the city of St. Augustine, Florida,[4] in the United States, in the late 18th and throughout the 19th centuries, brought by a colony of people from Mahón.[5][6]
In 1768, a large number of Menorcans, along with other Italians and Greeks workers, left for Florida to establish an agricultural colony, at a time when Menorca and Florida were still under British rule, maintaining their own culture ever since.
Economically, the project was a disaster, but the Menorcan immigrants did not abandon Florida, nor did they abandon their language, which survived up until the 19th century. Linguist Philip Rasico, who studied it, still found a good number of words and surviving elements. Catalan was the language of the homes, streets, and workshops of the city of St. Augustine.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Catalan is also classified as an Iberian Romance language.
References
- ↑ Philip D. Rasico (1986). "A Nineteenth-Century Traveler's Notes on the Minorcan Dialect and Customs of St. Augustine, Florida". Catalan Review 1 (2): 99. https://www.raco.cat/index.php/CatalanReview/article/download/308620/398626. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ "maonès | enciclopèdia.cat" (in Catalan). https://www.enciclopedia.cat/ec-gdlc-e00085870.xml.
- ↑ Rasico, Philip D. (1988) (in Spanish). Aproximació a la història del parlar menorquí de la Florida. Abadia de Montserrat: Actes del Cinquè Col·loqui d'Estudis Catalans a Nord-América: (Tampa-St. Augustine, 1987), 1988, ISBN 84-7826-001-3, págs. 69-83. pp. 69–83. ISBN 978-84-7826-001-0. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=8649697. Retrieved 2026-04-29.
- ↑ "Quan als Estats Units es parlava català" (in Catalan). https://www.elnacional.cat/ca/cultura/marc-pons-quan-estats-units-parlava-catala_374692_102.html.
- ↑ "Se cumplen 250 años del viaje de los menorquines a Florida" (in Spanish). https://menorcaaldia.com/2018/06/02/se-cumplen-250-anos-del-viaje-de-los-menorquines-a-florida/.
- ↑ "Els menorquins de la Florida" (in Catalan). http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/2912411/20080627/menorquins-florida.html.
- ↑ "Los catalanes de Florida se separan de los Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). 2020-01-10. https://www.elnacional.cat/es/efemerides/marc-pons-catalanes-florida-separan-estados-unidos_458676_102.html.
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