Loanwords

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>>78927152

Well, Vietnamese has a whole lot of loanwords from Chinese.

>>78927249
don't even get me started

>>78927152
>Yes
>Arabic

Old/Biblical loanwords mainly from Greek
Early modern loanwords mainly from German
Early modern slang words mainly from Polish, Russia, and British English
Current modern loanwords mainly from English
Current modern slang words mainly from American English, Arabic, and Russian

>>78927249
What about French?

>>78928311
Bonus: most of the British slang has changed meaning, because it came from early settlers in the time of the British mandate that didn't really understand English.
Manyak - from Maniac, means something like ''asshole'' or ''jerk''
Biskvit - from Buiscuit, meaning cookie, but specifically the kind you dip in tea (we also call them ''petiber'', bonus points if you figure what that's from)
''Third time ice-cream'' - an idiom meaning ''third time's the charm'', from the phrase ''you scream, i scream, we all scream for ice cream''

>>78927152
no

>>78928348
Like 50 words at best, not included country names (which i barely count as loanwords).

>>78927152
Yes
From Latin and German, mostly, tho almost all of them have Slavic counterparts, some of which were themselves borrowed from other Slavic languages
It's possible to use a latinate register in Slovene just like in English and many other languages, or a lumpen vernacular filled with German words

>>78927152
Yep
From French and German

>Proto-Indo-Aryan
>Proto-Baltic
>Proto-Germanic
>Old Norse
>Latin
>English

>>78927152
We have some loanwords from english for modern tech stuff. Also some random stuff like parking, weekend for some reason.

main influences:
>Spanish
>English
>Chinese

languages that had less influence on Filipino:
>Sanskrit
>Arabic
>Nahuatl
>Japanese