Questions tagged [borrowings]
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What is the variety of ways one can deal with absorbing words from different languages in a conlang?
The conlang I am working on has very strict rules on word formation:
They must start and end with a consonant
They can only have single vowels between consonants (which can be in consonant clusters).
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How can I make my conlang's borrowings naturalistic?
As something of a follow-on to my question about “naturalizing” conlangs, I’m looking for any information - actual tools would be nice, too, if available - for “borrowing”...
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Borrowing from conlangs into natural languages
Are there known cases of borrowing of words from a constructed language into a natural language?
Words constructed arbitrarily in a natural language don't count here. For example, the Estonian word ...
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