Conlang borrowings

> >ObConlang: How receptive are your conlangs to borrowings?  Utakassí
> >generally prefers calques to loans, altho it wasn't always like that.
> >Proto-Kassi-Plia borrowed a *lot* of foreign words, including the
> >numbers 7-12.
Old Yivríndil contained quite a few loans from surrounding languages, but
once the modern Yivríndi attained cultural dominance in their part of the
globe, borrowings were rare.  The main sources of borrowings in current
Yivríndil are from the closely related language Praçí (a lot of natural
terms borrowed from this language) or the more distantly related language
Hiksilipsi.  Borrowings from Chazaar, Aenmur, and Wynnawe are rarer,
but they do occur.  All of those languages have borrowed extensively from
Yivríndil, though.  (Since these are all places/languages in my conworld,
I don't expect any of you to know what they are.)


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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