English has become the dominant donor language for many languages, including Croatian. Its prestigious status reduces likelihood of borrowed words to adapt a recipient language. As result, some loanwords occur in an unadapted form. Recent computational linguistic resources have given necessary corpus-based data on frequency and use This paper investigates strategies employed by 116 students Fac...

In rural Tanzania, recent major influences happen between Kiswahili and English to ethnic languages rather than ethnic languages, which had been in contact for so long, influencing each other. In this work, I report the results of investigation of lexical changes in indigenous languages that aimed at examining how ethnic communities and their languages, namely Cushitic Iraqw, Nilotic Datooga, N...