Muslim-majority Asian languages: contribution to English

Muslim-majority Asian languages: contribution to English

Muslim-Majority Asian Languages Contribution to English presents a modest contribution to the field of sociolinguistics. Loan words in English have been identified as those which may be attributed to languages spoken by majority speakers who are Muslim. While many words in European languages have fo...

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Main Author: Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: IIUM Press 2015
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PE English
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spelling iium-446632017-08-18T00:18:22Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/44663/ Muslim-majority Asian languages: contribution to English Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen PE English Muslim-Majority Asian Languages Contribution to English presents a modest contribution to the field of sociolinguistics. Loan words in English have been identified as those which may be attributed to languages spoken by majority speakers who are Muslim. While many words in European languages have found their way into English, much research on vocabulary items from Muslim-Majority languages and how they are used in the borrowing language is presumably lacking. The present book hopes to fulfil the need and provide English language users with opportunities to show the vastly global nature of the global lingua franca. IIUM Press 2015 Book PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/44663/1/44663_Muslim-majority%20Asian%20languages.pdf Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen (2015) Muslim-majority Asian languages: contribution to English. IIUM Press, Kuala Lumpur. ISBN 978-967-418-390-5 http://iiumpress.iium.edu.my/bookshop/muslim-majority-asian-languages-contribution-to-english
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Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen
Muslim-majority Asian languages: contribution to English
description Muslim-Majority Asian Languages Contribution to English presents a modest contribution to the field of sociolinguistics. Loan words in English have been identified as those which may be attributed to languages spoken by majority speakers who are Muslim. While many words in European languages have found their way into English, much research on vocabulary items from Muslim-Majority languages and how they are used in the borrowing language is presumably lacking. The present book hopes to fulfil the need and provide English language users with opportunities to show the vastly global nature of the global lingua franca.
format Book
author Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen
author_facet Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen
author_sort Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen
title Muslim-majority Asian languages: contribution to English
title_short Muslim-majority Asian languages: contribution to English
title_full Muslim-majority Asian languages: contribution to English
title_fullStr Muslim-majority Asian languages: contribution to English
title_full_unstemmed Muslim-majority Asian languages: contribution to English
title_sort muslim-majority asian languages: contribution to english
publisher IIUM Press
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/44663/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/44663/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/44663/1/44663_Muslim-majority%20Asian%20languages.pdf
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