Of the linguistic changes due to a more obvious type of contact the one which seems to have played the most important part in the history of language is the "borrowing" of words across linguistic frontiers. - Sapir (1933a), a pag.24 [...] borrowing naturally goes hand in hand with cultural diffusion. - Sapir (1933a), a pag.24 [...] borrowings have taken place in all directions, but the number of truly important source languages is surprisingly small. - Sapir (1933a), a pag.24
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