Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords.
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The Korean vocabulary is composed of three components: native words, Sino-Korean words and loanwords.
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With the help of loanwords and Esperanto word elements you can create many new words which may not exist in the source language.
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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".
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