Sentence examples for languages borrowing from inspiring English sources
On the "borrowability scale" 39, which ranks the ease with which different elements of language are assimilated by recipient languages, borrowing of words ranks highest.
Languages borrow words freely from one another.
The literary languages borrowed words and suffixes from earlier languages.
In the Germanic languages, borrowed Latin words principally involve trade and often reflect archaic forms.
Other European languages borrowed "conservative" and "conservatism" from English.
The Perl languages borrow features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed.
The Germanic languages borrowed the word Greeks with an initial "k" sound which probably was their initial sound closest to the Latin "g" at the time (Goth. Kreks).
The English language, borrowing, as so often, from Latin, already has a word for a supreme head.
In language borrowed from the 1971 Constitution, Article 2 of the latest draft says that "the principles of Islamic law are the main source of legislation".
Soldiers who had served in Somalia later recalled that Steele could be impolitic, and often used bravado-laced language borrowed from football — some Rangers called him Coach.
You know exactly what they mean, though they speak only in a mix of body language borrowed from contemporary life and old dance steps taken from West Africa and Cuba.
