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befida
11-03-2007, 02:26 PM
I'm from Turkey...In Turkey, there is a problem, that is " deformation of Turkish"..Everybody complains that Some Turkish and English words come together and they make a new word..It is called as Turkenglish..:) Nowadays, English has a great influence on Turkish..

If we admit this as a problem, I wonder very much, is there anywhere else that has the same problem?


PS: Sorry for my grammatical mistakes...:)

PeterL
11-03-2007, 03:49 PM
Languages have always been mutable, plastic. Languages both in vocabulary and structure borrow from other languages. The Turkish of Turkey is very different from the language of Turkmenistan, because many words were borrowed from Greek and Armenian hundreds of years ago. English has probably borrowed more words from more other languages than other languages. In common use in English there are words from French, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Aztec and other American Indian languages, Spanish, Russian, and many other languages. In a few thousand years it will be difficult to tell whether those words were borrowed from English or borrowed by English.