Russian loanwords in Skolt Saami

russian loanwords in mazandarani dialect

due to the close proximity of mazanadaran and russia there have always been considerable language contacts between the two regions. for example , in mazandarani dialect there have been numerous loanwords borrowed from russian language , while they are not in use in standard persian or its other dialects . this paper will examine these type of loanwords . they are occasionally imported with a di...

Indo-European Loanwords in Altaic

English loanwords in Japanese

As a result of the economic, political and cultural influence of Britain and the US, and the emergence of English as an international language, many world languages have absorbed loanwords from English, especially during the twentieth century. Japanese contains thousands of such borrowings, many of which are well-established and in universal use. A domestic phonetic script is available to both ...

Loanwords in Amsterdam: preface

Temporal patterns of quantity in Inari Saami

The sound system of Inari Saami exhibits a threeway quantity contrast which is similar to some other Finno-Ugric languages – Estonian and Livonian – in several respects. In all these languages the domain of ternary quantity is a disyllabic foot where the first syllable is stressed and the second syllable is unstressed. In this study we investigate the realisation of the ternary quantity contras...