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Acharya, Jayaraj – Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 1990
Focuses on the controversy among Nepali language specialists over the sources of lexical borrowing in Nepali. Lexical items currently are borrowed from both English and Sanskrit, and also Hindi/Urdu, Persian and Arabic. After reviewing Nepali history and language, the question of borrowing from different sources within different domains of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Hindi
