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Old 01-Dec-2007, 20:28
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Default Re: What happened to those missing languages in this planet?

Just because a language borrows words and phrases from other languages doesn't mean that language is endangered.

English has long borrowed words from other languages. Here are just a few examples:

kindergarten
anorak
igloo
video
perestroika
glasnost
holocaust
café
schadenfreude
céilidh
graffiti
blitz

...and so on.
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