Information about Lists Of English Words Of International Origin

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Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
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Official language of: 53 countries
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ISO 639-1: en
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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 lexical item itself.
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These words of Australian Aboriginal origin include some which are almost universal in the English-speaking world, such as kangaroo and boomerang. Many such words have also become loan words in other languages beyond English.
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This is a list of English language words that come from any of the sub-Saharan African languages. It excludes placenames except where they have become common words.

• aardvark - Afrikaans word, meaning earth (or ground) pig

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Words of Afrikaans origin have entered other languages.

British English has absorbed Afrikaans words primarily via British soldiers who served in the Boer Wars.
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Star names are not included. For star names, please consult the Wikipedia article, List of traditional star names as well as other Wikipedia articles listed here.

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There are dozens of Arabic loanwords in English, i.e.
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Words of Chinese origin have entered the English language and many European languages. Most of these were loanwords from Chinese itself, a term covering those members of the Chinese branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
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Absurdistan (in Czech Absurdistán) - word created by Eastern Bloc dissidents, passed into English mainly through works of Václav Havel.

Camellia - named after Georg Joseph Kamel

háček - a diacritical mark, literally "little hook", e.g.
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Aardvark

from aardvarken (via Afrikaans) (=literally "earth pig") ^[1] ; : from hoi (="hello") ; Apartheid : from apartheid

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This is a list of English words that are thought to have their origin in Etruscan and were borrowed through Latin, often via French. Not all of these words have been demonstrated to be of Etruscan origin, and some may be Indo-European or from another source.
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Few words of Finnish origin have entered other languages. On the contrary, the language is a rather a net importer of words.

Words lent to the English language

Finnish has lent few words to the English language.
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A great number of words of French origin have entered the English language to the extent that 40% of its vocabulary is of French origin. Many of those words in turn originate from Latin, and sometimes from Greek.
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Flugabwehrkanone — literally: air-defense gun), for anti-aircraft guns or their shells, as in flak jacket; or in the figurative sense: "drawing flak" = being heavily criticized

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The Greek language has contributed to the English vocabulary in three ways:

1. directly as an immediate donor,
2. indirectly through other intermediate language(s), as an original donor (mainly through Latin and French), and
3. with modern coinages or new Greek.

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Greek alphabet | style="font-size: 100% !important; padding: 0 5px 0 5px;" | Transliteration schemes
Greek Traditional Classical Modern
Α α a a a
Β β b b v
Γ γ g g gh, y
Δ δ d d dh
Ε ε e e e
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A number of Hawaiian words have made their way into the English language. Within Hawai'i, an English-speaking state in the United States, the number of Hawaiian words used in everyday conversation is quite large, so the listing here is presumably limited to those words that are known or
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This is a list of English words of Hebrew (and related Semitic) origin. Transliterated pronunciations follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter tav (ת) is transliterated as a
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Hungarian language

Alphabet, including ő ű and
cs dz dzs gy ly ny sz ty zs

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Phonetics and phonology
Vowel harmony
Grammar
   Noun phrases
   Verbs
T-V distinction
Regulatory body
Hungarian name
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This is a list of words in the English language that originated in any of the languages of India.

Hindi language

see: List of English words of Hindi origin

Sanskrit language

see: List of English words of Sanskrit origin

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does not refer to the founder of Buddhism. ^[32]

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Candy

from Old French sucre candi, via Arabic and Persian probably ultimately from Sanskrit khanda "sugar", perhaps from Dravidian.
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This is a list of English words that are ultimately of Tamil origin.

Words borrowed from modern Tamil

anaconda

possibly from a Tamil word for 'Aanai Kondan', or Elephant killer ^[1] Most dictionaries (AHD, MWD, New Oxford American Dictionary

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This is a list of English language words of Hindi language origin. Many of the Hindi equivalents have originated from Sanskrit; see List of English words of Sanskrit origin. Many others are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin.
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Words of Urdu origin have entered other languages. Many words have been incorporated into Indian English. Some have thence been exported to the English language in general and thence to other languages.
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This is a list of words in the English language that originated in any of the languages of India.

Hindi language

see: List of English words of Hindi origin

Sanskrit language

see: List of English words of Sanskrit origin

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Loan words / kata serapan (Indonesian) from Indonesian in English.

• Agar
• Amok from amuk
• Angklung Sundanese instrument
• Bamboo from bambu
• Bantam
• Batik a traditional clothes (from Javanese) in Indonesia
• Catty
• Canting

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The Javanese language is the spoken language of the people in the central and eastern part of the island of Java, in Indonesia. It is the native language of more than 75,500,000 people.
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Malay}}} 
Writing system: Rumi (Latin alphabet) (official) and Jawi (Arabic script); historically written in Pallava, Kawi and Rencong 
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Official language of:

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Sundanese (Basa Sunda, literally "language of Sunda") is the language of about 27 million people from the western third of Java or about 15% of the Indonesian population.
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The term Papuan languages refers to those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. That is, the term is defined negatively and does not imply a linguistic relationship.
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