Loanwords

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>>78970397

not a loanwords, but word king in slavic languages comes from Charlemagne and word for Emperor is Caesar with small changes depending on language (Cisár in Slovak)

>>78970397
just some english words

>>78970397
>Sp*nish
>Engl*sh
>Ch*nese

>>78970397
Did this study take a random cross-section of the vocabulary as a sample? Why are the samples of different sizes? Because 1,400 words consisting an entire language can't be right, most European dictionaries usually list about a quarter of a million entries.

>>78970397
Yes:
Sanskrit e.g. putra, satria
Chinese e.g. cawan, kongsi
Arabic e.g. kitab, ikhlas, salam
Persian e.g. menara, pasar, dewan
Portuguese e.g. garfu, keju, sekolah
English e.g. buku

>>78971770
And German (bleu) and Latin, and Greek.

>>78971921
Gypsy languages and dialects lost many words over the centuries since they dont write shit down

mostly english but some are from german portuguese or dutch
and chinese

>>78970397
Standard Slovene doesn't have as many because they were taken out and those that remained are so old they are not counted anymore as they have been Slovenised so much. Dialects have a lot of them though, mostly German, some Friulian and Italian (most Italian loanwords can be found in Littoral dialects).

> mfw my entire language is made from loan words
> mfw there is only one real Urdu word in the entire national anthem
Most of the words are form and Arabic and Persian