Recent Japanese loanwords in Chinese

Language Log 2013-07-22

Summary:

For the last couple of weeks we've been focusing on loans from Chinese and Japanese into English and from English into Chinese and Japanese. In this post, I'd like to demonstrate the intricate intertwining of Mandarin, topolectal Chinese, Japanese, and English, with Japanese providing for Chinese two key terms from comic book culture. All of [...]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=5348

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

07/22/2013, 01:40

Date published:

07/22/2013, 01:09