[...] 'intimate borrowing' which occurs when two languages are spoken in what is topographically and politically a single community. - Bloomfield (1935), a pag.461 Intimate borrowing is one-sided [...] The borrowing goes from predominantly from the upper language to the lower, and it very often extends to speech-forms that are not connected with culural novelties. - Bloomfield (1935), a pag.461
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