The inevitability of linguistic change: The motivation of borrowing English terms by Shona speakers

Europeans brought new concepts, ideas and technologies with them that had not existed before colonialism in Zimbabwe. This led Shona and other indigenous languages (such as Ndebele, Venda, Nambya, Kalanga) to absorb a substantial new vocabulary into their lexicons. Speakers of these languages have b...

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Main Authors: Gumbo, Lettiah, Mutasa, Davie E
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor and Francis Ltd. 2021
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02572117.2020.1733825
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4257
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