I imagine Arabic, for example, would have similar specs, being spread across a vast geographic area with multiple distinct identities, and probably a great deal of influence from the local languages it supplanted.
I think at this point most European languages or languages that have contact with them have significant numbers of loan words and influence from English and French, which also kind of lose their distinction due to their
large vocabulary and a vast amount of regional variation. In terms of its structure, I often think of Romanian as having parallels: it's a Romance language that underwent heavy Slavicization.
world have entered English due to colonization and globalization. English isn't the most-spoken language in the world (Mandarin Chinese), but it is the most WIDELY spoken, which has an influence. As a result it has a relatively
into Romance - about 90% of English words with more than two syllables ultimately come from Latin. There are also huge numbers of Greek borrowings and some Celtic, and that's before the modern era, where words from all over the
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