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"Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa". Language reflects people's identity. Society and language are like bone and flesh. Under sociolinguistics study, we are concern with the dignity of our language. Try to imagine your most precious national language suddenly dissappear and you are actually to be blamed without you even realize it.

Tuesday 17 February 2009

What is "Lexical Borrowing"?

Lexical borrowing happens when a language borrows the words from other languages and blend in all the vocabulary that have been borrowed with the words from that particular language.

Posted by Authentic Gift of Language at 04:43

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Authentic Gift of Language: This blog will share with you the information about lexical borrowing in Malay language. We will highlight the causes and effects of adopting English language vocabulary in Malay language and how to overcome the problem faced by the language that has been polluted by the attitude of lexical borrowing.

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Contents

1. Welcoming Remark (1)
2. Owner's Profile (1)
3. English is not Threatening Us (1)
4. What is "Lexical Borrowing"? (1)
5. Why We Tend to Borrow Words From English? (1)
6. The Effects of This Phenomena (1)
7. Islamic Perspective(s) (1)
8. Reflection (1)
9. Lesson Plan (1)
E-Portfolio Fatin (1)
E-Portfolio Shahirah (1)
E-Portfolio Shima (1)
E-Portfolio Suraya (1)
Example of Lexical Borrowing (1)
Example of Lexical Borrowing Words (1)

References

Globalization and a Shifting Malay
Happy Working Song
Lexical Borrowability
Sound Strategy for a Shifting Malay