A comparative Study of English Loans in Russian and Swahili

Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie; Ildiko Csajbok-Twerefou

doi:10.21049/ccs.2011.24..169

A comparative Study of English Loans in Russian and Swahili

Cross-Cultural Studies
2011, 24(), pp.169~190
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2011.24..169
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Humanities > Literature

Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie ¹, Ildiko Csajbok-Twerefou ¹

¹University of Ghana

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This paper is a comparative study of English loans in Russian and Swahili. In the twenty first century, due to the advantage of English as a global language, a language of technology and business, it has had contact with many languages of the world and has become a major source of loans to many languages. Though very different from each other, both Russian and Swahili currently have English as their main source of loanwords. This study reports the extensive adaptation of English loans by Russian and Swahili and examines how these loan items are assimilated into the two languages. It concludes that besides the adaption of pure English loans they have both employed other strategies such as loan translations, semantic extensions and loanblends for vocabulary expansion.

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English loansRussian Swahili adaptation loan types

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