The World Loanword Database (WOLD)
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The World Loanword Database, edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor, is a scientific publication by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (2009).It provides vocabularies (mini-dictionaries of about 1000-2000 entries) of 41 languages from around the world, with comprehensive information about the loanword status of each word. It allows users to find loanwords, source words and donor languages in each of the 41 languages, but also makes it easy to compare loanwords across languages.
Cite as:
Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) 2009.
World Loanword Database.
Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
(Available online at http://wold.clld.org, Accessed on 2014-08-27.)
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