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How many loanwords you think does your language have? too many? too few? and what kind of words are the ones that get more borrowings, and from which languages?
The World Loanword Database provides vocabularies of 41 languages from around the world, with comprehensive information about the loanword status of each word. It allows users to find loanwords, source words and donor languages in each of the 41 languages, but also makes it easy to compare loanwords across languages.
The World Loanword Database is the result of a collaborative project coordinated by Uri Tadmor and Martin Haspelmath between 2004 and 2008, called the Loanword Typology Project (LWT). Most of the contributors took part in workshops at which the procedures for selecting and annotating words were discussed extensively.
An accompanying book has been published by De Gruyter Mouton ( Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, edited by Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor, 2009).
>>915942
every word is a loanword if you go back far enough. don't worry about how many your language has gotten in recent history.
The more loanwords you have the stronger your language will be. It is like eating hearts of your enemies.
>>916588
>every word is a loanword if you go back far enough
u wot
