This paper represents a comprehensive study of English loanword usage in five diverse francophone neighborhoods in the national capital region of Canada. Twenty thousand loan tokens extracted from informal conversations with 120 speakers are analyzedfor degree oflinguistic integration into French and social assimilation by the francophone community. Attestation histories ofEnglish forms in Cana...

Abstract The mere appearance of a foreign word does not necessarily mark the birth loanword, which requires documented usage by speech community. Relatively little research has been dedicated so far to “prenatal” stage that would investigate tentative infiltration foreign-derived words. Nyet , borrowing from Russian, is taken as case in point. Although its first recorded instance Oxford English...

This study is an analysis of lexical borrowing nominals in Sabaot from Kiswahili. The two languages under differ each other significant ways. Kiswahili, for example, a language the Niger-Congo family classified by Ethnologue as ISO 639-3: SWA, while on hand, belongs to Southern Nilotic group that occupies Mount Elgon area. research was guided specific objective; investigate spoken young, middle...

Lexical borrowings, or the adoption of words from one language into another, are a common phenomenon in evolution. One that has had significant impact on lexicon other languages is English, particularly through use Anglicism. These borrowed English used languages, often context globalization and spread as global lingua franca. However, these not always straightforward, they undergo adaptations ...

This study focuses on language change, specifically the lexical change of Batak Toba in two different areas. research aims to contribute other researchers and governments related future local maintaining itself. used a qualitative method, case study, analyze aspects among people who use their area. Miles Huberman’s technique collecting data was this research. The collected from Language videos ...