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Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords.
The Korean vocabulary is composed of three components: native words, Sino-Korean words and loanwords.
With the help of loanwords and Esperanto word elements you can create many new words which may not exist in the source language.
As we no longer alter the spellings of loanwords to match typical English spelling conventions, this leads to many words with unusual spellings, like "guanxi", "qarin", "kawaii" and "burqa".
European languages have many loanwords from Latin and Greek.
Loanwords don't corrupt a language; they merely change it.
There is not a language without some loanwords.
There is not a language which doesn't have some loanwords.
Berber has lots of Arabic loanwords, but it's not Arabic at all.
Words such as "azul," "tanemmirt," and "aselmad" are modern Berber. They come from various Berber dialects and are not known in the Kabyle dialect. In fact, Kabyle uses words such as "ahla" for "hello," "ṣaḥḥa" for "thank you," and "ccix" for "teacher," and all these words are Arabic loanwords that are used and understood from Mauritania to the farthest reaches of Saudi Arabia. Denying the existence of the Berber language and modern Berber is completely useless and it is usually politically motivated.
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