| Lemma | adoption of foreign sounds |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Bloomfield (1935) |
| Titolo | Language |
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| Citazioni | If the borrowing people is relatively familiar with the lending language, or if the borrowed words are fairly numerous, then foreign sounds which are acoustically remote from any native phoneme, may be preserved in a more or less accurate rendering that violates the native phonetic system[...] This adoption of foreign sounds may become quite fixed. |