cultural (loan) word

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• Loan words in Sri Lankan Tamil — came about mostly due contact between colonial powers and the native population. Linguists study a language s lexicon for a number of reasons. Languages such as Tamil with centuries of literature and multi cultural contact offer the chance to… …   Wikipedia

• Cultural depictions of Jesus — Christ Carrying the Cross, by El Greco, 1580. Jesus has inspired artistic and cultural works for nearly two millennia. The following lists cover various media to include items of historic interest, enduring works of high art, and recent… …   Wikipedia

• List of cultural references in The Cantos — This is a list of people, places, events, etc. that feature in Ezra Pound s The Cantos , a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto. It is a book length work, widely considered to present formidable difficulties to the… …   Wikipedia

• Philistine language — Infobox Language name=Philistine region=Formerly spoken in southwestern Palestine extinct=5th century BC familycolor=Afro Asiatic fam2=Semitic fam3=West Semitic fam4=Central Semitic fam5=Northwest Semitic fam6=Canaanite iso2=sem iso3=The… …   Wikipedia

• HEBREW LANGUAGE — This entry is arranged according to the following scheme: pre biblical biblical the dead sea scrolls mishnaic medieval modern period A detailed table of contents precedes each section. PRE BIBLICAL nature of the evidence the sources phonology… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Loanword — A loanword (or loan word ) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept whereby it is the meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the… …   Wikipedia

• Maldivian language — Maldivian (divehi) Spoken in Maldives and Minicoy (India). Region South Asia …   Wikipedia

• Peranakan — (Straits Chinese) 峇峇娘惹 土生華人 Total population 7,000,000 (estimates)[1] Regions with significant populations Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia …   Wikipedia

• Mahal language — Infobox Language name=Mahal nativename=މަހަލް महल् IAST|Mahal states=Minicoy (India); Maldives region=Southern South Asia speakers=15,000 20,000 (Mahal Only) familycolor=Indo European fam2=Indo Iranian fam3=Indo Aryan fam4=Insular Indo Aryan… …   Wikipedia

• Novel — For other uses, see Novel (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Novell. New novels in a Oldenburg bookshop, February 2009 …   Wikipedia

• Latin America, history of — Introduction       history of the region from the pre Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th century wars of independence, and developments to the end of World War II.… …   Universalium