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Lexical typology of borrowings

Borrowed words are the words adopted from other languages. Borrowing is a consequence of cultural contact between two language communities. Borrowing of words can go in both directions between the two languages in contact, but often there is an asymmetry, such that more words go from one side to the other. According to the nature of borrowings, they can be classified in all languages into:

 A loan word taken over from another proper language can be modified in phonetic shape, spelling, paradigm or meaning according to the standards of the language. Example:
EnglishRussianUzbek: club, pop, abest-seller, show, CD-Rom.

RussianUzbek: журнал, театр, роман, армия, сюжет, автобус.

 A translation loans are the words and expressions formed I one language after the patterns characteristic of it but under the influence of some foreign words and expressions. For example:
Latin: “tinge maternal”  mother tongue;

English: “Periodical journals” периодическиежурналы;

Russian: “Дом престарелых”қариялар уйиandetc.

 Semantic borrowings are the appearance of a new meaning due to the influence of a related word in another language. For instance:

English: mother  Mutter (German)  Madre (Spanish).

Russian: noktь(night) (protoSlavic) ночь(Russian) ніч(Ukrainian)ноч(Belarusian) noc (Polish) noc (Czech) noc (Slovak) noč (Slovene) ноћ/ noć(Serbo-Croatian)нощ (nosht) (Bulgarian).

Uzbek: бош (Uzbek) бас (Kazakh, Kharakhalpak) баш(Kirgiz, Turkmen), тоғ(Uzbek) тоо(Kirgiz)  тав, тау(Kazakh, Kharakhalpak) дағ(Turkmen, Azerbaijan).

During XV centuries of its written history, the English language comes in long and close contacts with several other languages, mainly, Latin, French and Norman (Scandinavian). The great influence of borrowings in English is explained

by a number of historical causes: Latin was for a long time used as a language of learning and religion; Norman was the language of conquerors in the IX-XI centuries; French was the language of other conquerors in the XI-XIV centuries.

The Uzbek language also has had and old and long contacts with many nations in its history, especially with Arabians, Persians, Turkish and Russians. It is known from the history of Uzbek language that Arabian was the language of religion and science as Latin in English, Turkic and Persian were mostly the languages of poetry in the middle ages and other languages were the languages of the conquerors of several historical periods.

Different from English and Uzbek languages Russian language did not acquire words from any kind of conquerors, but as other languages, it also has a group of words which acquired from various genetically related and non-related languages. This language started to enlarge its vocabulary from ancient times. For instance, from VI-VII centuries words which connected with floras taken from Pro-Slavonic language, in VI-IX centuries influence of Eastern-Slavonic and Russian national language formed in the period of XVII-XVIII centuries. Besides, it expands its vocabulary from Indo-European languages too.