Loanword | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Loanword


00:00:20 1 Examples and related terms
00:01:34 2 From the arts
00:01:55 3 Linguistic classification
00:05:03 4 Popular and learned loanwords
00:05:29 5 In English
00:06:31 6 In languages other than English
00:06:41 6.1 Transmission in the Ottoman Empire
00:08:08 6.2 Dutch words in Indonesian
00:08:43 6.3 Loan words in Japanese
00:08:52 6.4 Romance Languages
00:11:49 7 Cultural aspects
00:12:18 8 Changes in meaning and pronunciation
00:12:45 9 See also



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A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation. This is in contrast to cognates, which are words in two or more languages that are similar because they share an etymological origin, and calques, which involve translation.