The Role of Borrowings in the Development of Swahili Vocabulary (on the Material of Arabic Loan Words)
The article deals with the problems of Swahili vocabulary development by means of borrowings from the Arab language. A lot of borrowed words and word combinations belonging to different semantic groups are being analyzed here.
Main Author: | L A Semenkova |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2013-12-01
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Series: | RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics |
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Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/7450 |
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