#loan-words — Public Fediverse posts

Serapii, the kanji it sidesteps (治), and 32,500 more words are on learn.japanology.nl/? utm_source=mastodon. Try the quiz and see if you remember it tomorrow. We start with the easy stuff, even when the word of the day looks intimidating. #Japanese #LearnJapanese #Loanwords #JLPT #WordOfTheDay #Japanology #Katakana #Gairaigo

rice : omurice :: arroz :

(A) omearroz?
(B) omuarroz?
(C) omuráis?
(D) tortilla francesa de arroz?
(E) (otro)

#linguistics #loanwords

Interesting language fact of the day: #English "kowtow" /ˌkaʊˈtaʊ/ could, orthography-wise, be pronounced very closely to the current #MandarinChinese pronunciation of its origin word, 叩头 kou4tou4 [kʰoutʰou] (disregarding tone). Compare English "tow" v. 'to draw' with the US pronunciation /toʊ/.
#loanwords #orthography #

Fun article on #English #loanwords. I had no idea about the origins many of them.

https://quillbot.com/blog/word-finder/loanwords/

Wow. "Obsolete #Occitan #loanwords of the #French language" is an amazing 1999 Canadian thesis.
https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/bbbd1668-90d8-4415-8e2a-da1ba219e576/content
#language #linguistics #France

Any starter packs for #Phonology #DiachronicPhonology #HistoricalLinguistics #ComparativeLinguistics #Loanwords #LinguisticTypology or #Etymology

#Linguistics #Grammaticality #LoanWords

Question for my fellow linguists, boost welcomed

Are loan-words considered grammaticals ?

Ex: parking, design (grammatical in english) > parking, design (ungrammatical in french ?)

I love how the logo of the recent Manila Spanish Film Festival organized by the #InstitutoCervantes leans into how #Tagalog has nearly ⅓ of its vocabulary coming from Spanish, including the key word “pelikula” from “película”. Even the other “film” loanword “sine” comes from “cine”. (Interestingly, the word “sinehan”, for “theater” or “movie house”, combines the Spanish loanword with the locative Tagalog suffix “-an”.)

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#SpanishLanguage #linguistics #loanwords #films #movies #Philippines

One more for the list of somewhat patronising English loanwords;

"Palaver (custom), a form of local conflict resolution in different African countries"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaver_(custom)

In NZ English, a palaver is anything that's overly complicated and time-consuming. If 19th century English aristocrats were put in a time machine and shown a modern Parliament, with all its consultation with the hoi polloi, they'd probably call that a palaver. In its original sense, they'd be bang on ; )

#LoanWords

🔴 🎥 Germanic Loanwords in Finnic Languages (with Dr. Johan Schalin)

“Dr. Johan Schalin presents on the fascinating history of the long interaction between Germanic (primarily Scandinavian) languages and Finnic languages, and the many different periods in which Germanic loanwords entered and became a part of Finnic.”

#Video length: one hour and thirty four minutes.

🔗 https://youtu.be/LIgKd0Ovzy8

#LoanWords #Words #Germanic #Finnic #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Scandinavia #Europe @linguistics

Arabic Loanwords in Hebrew

“The influence of Arabic, both spoken (in innumerable dialects, including those spoken by Jews) and written, took place in the mediaeval and modern periods of Hebrew; its vocabulary forms more than half of the Hebrew lexicon, according to the renowned dictionary of Abraham Even-Shoshan (Rosenstein, 1906–1984). The approximately 8,000 lexical items in the Bible are not sufficient to entirely meet the needs of either a written language or a spoken one.”

Shehadeh, H. (2011) “Arabic Loanwords in Hebrew”, Studia Orientalia Electronica, 111, pp. 327–344. Available at: https://journal.fi/store/article/view/9316 (Accessed: 25June2024).

#OpenAccess #OA #PeerReview #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Arabic #Hebrew #Loanwords #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics

“Four factors are found to be significant predictors of the position of primary stress: endings, word complexity, the segmental structure of the final syllable, and syllable count. Moreover, this study confirms previous observations on the tendency for American English to have more final stress in French loanwords than British English.”

Dabouis, Q. and Fournier, P. (2024) ‘Stress in French loanwords in British and American English’, Journal of Linguistics, pp. 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226724000136.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Linguistics #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #GB #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #France #French #English #LoanWord #LoanWords #Word #Words #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics

Ghetto – A Venetian word

The Venetian ghetto is the first ghetto ever, at least with the name 'ghetto' because that word comes from the Venetian language.

It has, however, more to do with medieval arms production than with the Jewish population of Venice.

#LoanWords #VenetianLanguage #Venezia #Venice

Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/the-venetian-language/ghetto-a-venetian-word/

In a previous corpus-linguistic study (https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecz033), we found that #neologisms built only with 'native' #language material are accepted faster into the German language than #loanwords from #English.

Back then, we operationalized 'acceptance into the language' by the amount of 'flagging' (use of linguistic markers, e.g. quotes or "so-called").

I am curious about the extent to which the Dutch colonization of Taiwan in the 17th century facilitated language contact and exchange, and how it influenced the presence of Dutch loanwords (or even syntactic similarities, and language structures) in contemporary regional Sinitic languages. Are there #Taiwanese people / folks living in #Taiwan here who know some Dutch loanwords in their language(s)?

#TootSEA #linguistics #formosa #loanwords #chinese #colonization

@japanfans @languagelovers

Bjørn, R. (2022). Indo-European loanwords and exchange in Bronze Age Central and East Asia: Six new perspectives on prehistoric exchange in the Eastern Steppe Zone. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, E23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.16 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #IndoEuropean #History #Histodon #Histodons #Linguistics #Archaeology #Genetics #BronzeAge #CentralAsia #Loanwords #Uralic #Turkic #OldChinese #Language #Languages #Culture #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodon @archaeodons @science
@linguistics

The Radical #Reinvention of the #EnglishLanguage #Neologisms, #slang, #jargon, #acronyms and #loanwords are reshaping the language right before our eyes. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/2023/04/20/radical-reinvention-english-language

The word “Lazzaretto”

The word “Lazaret” (“Lazzaretto” in Italian) comes from the original name of the medieval plague hospital in the Venetian Lagoon.

#language #lazzaretto-vecchio #loan-words #venetian-language #venezia #venice

https://historywalksvenice.com/2023/04/the-word-lazzaretto/

A fb thread made me pull out this SNL clip and I thought I'd share here, too. 32 years old and still lolsob hilarious and brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWMp_z7Jnxw

"NBC News Personnel really emphasis the pronunciation of Spanish words, while the new Economics Correspondent does not. Aired 11/10/90"

#sociolinguistics #linguistics #loanwords #USEnglish #Spanish #pronunciation #awkward #soawkward

I love this article about words "gifted" to the English language.

We shouldn't ignore the violence that made it a global language, of course, and so '"gifted" might not be the best way of framing how English acquires words.

It's always growing and challenging us in ways that aren't always comfortable. English is promiscuous in the best way.

#English #LoanWords #Language

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/12/english-words-world-global-speakers-language

@lj_writes #Dutch has quite a bit of #French #loanwords: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_Franse_woorden_en_uitdrukkingen_in_de_Nederlandse_taal

Even the #CoatOfArms of the Kingdom of the #Netherlands has a French slogan: "Je Maintiendrai" ("I shall maintain".)

The Netherlands briefly being part of #France between 1810 and 1813, and French being the lingua franca of especially the elite in #Europe in 17th-19th century probably has a lot to do with it.