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Example sentences for: borrowings

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It goes on to play with some well-known words and situate them in familiar Indian contexts, mentions the language's adaptability and resilience as borne out by its record of borrowings from such languages as Persian, Arabic, Tamil, and Sanskrit.
The presence of these borrowings make some Quebecois feel that their language is under threat.
As one looks elsewhere in the U.S., the preponderance of British borrowings diminishes, and the purely American inventions increase in proportion, as do Indian, Spanish, and French-based names.
On the other there were new names, borrowings from Aboriginal languages, like boobook, dingo, koala, kurrajong, wallaby, wallaroo, waratah, and wombat, all from Dharuk (the Sydney language); descriptive names like blackbutt, bottlebrush, duckbill, flooded gum, and gumtree; or popular adoptions of scientific names like banksia, callistemon, casuarina, boronia, eucalyptus, and platypus.
In fact, so rapidly does our vocabulary continue to expand by the addition of such technical neologisms as AIDS or star wars and such borrowings as zaftig and ayatollah that a reader of our day could well be more taxed to know the meanings of all the words in yesterday's newspaper than to understand all of the Diary .