Re: 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.
Many of the languages that will give the most to Tech:

Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic (Mainland Semitic)
Bantu
Berber
Sabaean (South Arabian Semitic)
Ge'ez/Amharic/Tigrinya (Ethiopian Semitic)
Somali/Oromo/Afar (Cushitic)
Egyptian/Coptic
Old Nubian
Greek
Latin
English
French
Spanish
Portuguese

First or Eastern Diaspora: to 1000 BC

-------->
              Egypt --> Palestine ---
East Africa {                           > Mesopotamia
              South Arabia ----------

Largest Techian communities between Christ's years and Islamic conquest:
Rome, Byzantium, Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria.

Second or Western Diaspora: to 1000 AD

                           <--------
Southern Europe <-----
                       } Mesopotamia
North Africa <-- Egypt

Exodus to the New World (many as slaves until 1800s): to present


                                <---------
North America \
               \    Spain, France, Britain
West Indies   --} <
               /      Morocco, West Africa
South America /

As of circa AD 2000, the largest Techian populations are in New York,
Houston and São Paolo.

That's a lot of cultural and linguistic influence.

DaW.