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A loanword is a word that is adopted by a language that comes from another language. An example is the word "jungle", which is a Hindi word that has been adopted into English.

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    Tofu is an English loanword from Japanese, where it is a loanword from Mandarin.

  • Backgammon and Dominos numbers in Ottoman Turkish, 1907

    Backgammon and Dominos numbers in Ottoman Turkish, 1907 (see Tables game#Languages)

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