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Romance and Spanish have been filled with Arabic loanwords, be they chemical, culinary, agricultural, technological, social or scientific.
Northern pronunciation varies from southern and has more Russian loanwords.
So it's a surprise to find that some languages have few loanwords.
The Malay word may also have been introduced to the Tongans by the Dutch themselves, as many Malay loanwords were already current in 17th century Dutch.
This led to the replacement of a significant number of Sanskrit loanwords by Tamil equivalents, though many others remain.
A strong sense of linguistic purism is found in Modern Tamil, which opposes the use of foreign loanwords.
Quite a few culinary loanwords exist in German and in other languages, some of which describe distinctive features of Polish cuisine.
Old Norse also had an influence on English dialects and Lowland Scots, which contain many Old Norse loanwords.
Foreign loanwords are primarily Norse and English, with a smaller number coming from French.
As a result, many loanwords are created and exported to China, Taiwan, and Singapore.
Some of the loanwords are even more popular than their Chinese counterparts.
Old English contained a certain number of loanwords from Latin, which was the scholarly and diplomatic lingua franca of Western Europe.
The letters Y and Z were later added to represent Greek letters, upsilon and zeta respectively, in Greek loanwords.
As in English, there are many pairs of synonyms due to the enrichment of the Germanic vocabulary with loanwords from Latin and Latinized Greek.
These words are probably not direct loanwords from English, but have been adopted through standard German intermediation.
Encompassing modern High German vocabulary in use since 1450, it also includes loanwords adopted from other languages into German.
Banda Malay shares many Portuguese loanwords with Ambonese Malay not appearing in the national language, Indonesian.
However, Spanish loanwords are still present today in many of the indigenous Philippine languages.
The Mesoamerican language area shares a number of important features, including widespread loanwords, and use of a vigesimal number system.
Most of these loanwords denote things indigenous to central Mexico which the Spanish heard mentioned for the first time by their Nahuatl names.
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