The current ethno-linguistic landscape of mainland Southeast Asia is a result of the spread of Tai speakers from southern China. This study examines Chinese loanwords in Proto-Southwestern Tai, the hypothetical ancestor of all modern Southwestern Tai varieties and proposes a dating of the spread of Southwestern Tai languages. By comparing the reconstructed Proto-Southwestern Tai forms with corr...

This study addresses our understanding of English loanwords in the modern Japanese language. It aims to investigate two types and made-in-Japan among Malaysian speakers native Japanese. The proposed utilized a quantitative approach determine groups speakers; 60 Japan Malaysia. data collection this research was completed using questionnaires. questionnaires consist 14 sentences with these select...

The purpose of this research is to examine the types loanwords used in Obama's inaugural speech. loanword theory Haugen (loanword, loan blend, and shift) Yule's word creation were adopted research. It a qualitative approach describe before-after borrow pattern, loanwords, process formation. data indicates that sixteen words are part blend; nine shift; one loanword. While based on formation, it ...

This paper describes an accurate, extensible method for automatically classifying unknown foreign words that requires minimal monolingual resources and no bilingual training data (which is often difficult to obtain for an arbitrary language pair). We use a small set of phonologically-based transliteration rules to generate a potentially unlimited amount of pseudo-data that can be used to train ...

The distribution of the Russian loan vocabulary within Saami languages centers on Skolt, Akkala, Kildin, and Ter Saami. In Skolt Saami, this loanword stratum forms largest contains more than 750 lexemes. Despite significance stratum, there has hardly been any actual analysis loanwords in languages. This paper aims to fill gap by presenting an overview from a phonological, morphological, semanti...