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According to Kemmer, (2009) loanwords are words adopted by the speakers of one language from a different language (the source language). Borrowing is usually attributed to the consequence of cultural contact between two language communities. Borrowing of words can go in both directions between the two languages in contact, but often there is an asymmetry, such that more words go from one side to the other. In this case the source language community has some advantage of power, prestige and wealth that makes the objects and ideas it brings desirable and useful to the borrowing language community

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