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Conlangery #59: Loan Words

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The Different Types of Borrowing

Coptic has this vast amount of borrow, but that's because large chop chunks of ancient Egypt were Greek speaking. Coptic has the standard Afro-asian gender system, which is basically just masculine and feminine. If there are a lot of bilingual speakers, then you may get more grammatical bleed over. In English, I think the word for gyro, I was just looking to see the day. Gyro actually has an esnly end, but in English, that is usually seen as plurals. So instead of saying, like, Yeros or gyros for a singular, we just say one gyro and five gyros.

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