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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Taylor and Francis Group
2023
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| Online Access: | https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5718 https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2020.1733825 |
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