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Borrowing

Index of SIL publications on Borrowing listed by country.

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General works

• Benedict, Paul K. 1996. "Monic ‘*clur’ and other Southeast Asian ‘dogs’."  
• Heins, John H. 2003. "A transliteração de nomes próprios na língua Sena."
• Hess, H. Harwood. 1991. "Hazards of borrowing."
• Pike, Eunice V. 1959. "A note on language borrowing in action."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Ghana

• Hansford, Keir and Gillian F. Hansford. 1989. "Borrowed words in Chumburung."

Madagascar

• Blench, Roger. 2006. "The Austronesians in Madagascar and on the East African coast: surveying the linguistic evidence for domestic and translocated animals."  

Americas

Brazil

• Fortune, Gretchen. 1988. "Indigenous literatures: Oral and written literature and the influence of language borrowing in relation to male and female speech differences."

Mexico

• Bartholomew, Doris A. 1954-55. "Palabras prestadas del español en el dialecto otomí."
• Bartholomew, Doris A. 1980. "Cornfield: a loan translation for the number thousand in some Mexican languages."
• Bartholomew, Doris A. 1980. "Otomanguean influence on Pochutla Aztec."
• Casad, Eugene H. 1988. "Cora borrowings vis à vis creolization: An outsider’s view."
• Casad, Eugene H. 1988. "Post-conquest influences on Cora (Uto-Aztecan)."
• Clark, Lawrence E. 1977. "Linguistic acculturation in Sayula Popoluca."
• Nordell, Norman. 1984. "Spanish loan words via Aztec."
• Olson, Donald. 1963. "Spanish loan words in Pame."
• Pickett, Velma B. 1992. "Palabras de préstamo en zapoteco del Istmo."

Peru

• Weber, David J. 1980. "Un aspecto del quechua de Ancash."

Asia

China

• Qin Xiaohang. 1998. "Some Kam-Tai loan-words in Mon-Khmer languages."  

Indonesia

• Nivens, Richard J. 1998. Borrowing vs. code-switching: Malay insertions in the conversations of West Tarangan speakers of the Aru Islands of Maluku, eastern Indonesia.

Philippines

• Baklanova, Ekaterina. 2006. "Morphological assimilation of borrowings in Tagalog."  
• Burton, Scott L. 2003. "A case study of lexical borrowing between language families in the southern Philippines."
• Burton, Scott Lynn. 1996. A case study of lexical borrowing between language families: The East Mindanao and Manobo languages.
• Cena, R. M. 1979. "Double representations for some loan words in Tagalog."  

Thailand

• Kapper, James. 1992. "English borrowing in Thai as reflected in Thai journalistic texts."

Viet Nam

• Barker, Milton E. 1969. "The phonological adaptation of French loanwords in Vietnamese."  
• Gregerson, Kenneth J. 1991. "An Austronesian lexicon in Vietnamese."

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• Litteral, Robert L. 1987. "Can local languages express scientific, mathematical and other technological concepts?."