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Conlangery #59: Loan Words

Conlangery Podcast

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The Different Semantic Fields of Words

When you borrow a word, it has to be altered to fit the native phonology. Like anime Japanese doesn't have air. This sort of thing happens with, I mean, that's rampant in any kind of borrowing. All sorts of weirdness happens from Greek and then Greek to Latin and then Latin to all of these local European languages.

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