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The image is from the blog Language Log and lists the results of a global survey on how languages borrow words from one another. The listed words in the post are those words that are the least likely to ever be borrowed from another language (or to look at it another way, the words least likely to be replaced by a word borrowed from another language).
Also from the survey:
"The most loanword-friendly languages (in their set of 30) were Selice Romani (60%), Tarifiyt Berger (48%), Romanian (40%), English (39%), and Sramaccan (34%). The most loanword-resistant languages were Mandarin Chinese (1%), Ket (7%), Manage (7%), Seychelles Creole (8%), and Gurindji (9%).
The most borrowable word meanings were kangaroo (100%), olive (100%), motor (96%), camel (95%), coffee (93%)."
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I thought I posted a previous comment, but it seems to have disappeared!
The image is from the blog Language Log and lists the results of a global survey on how languages borrow words from one another. The listed words in the post are those words that are the least likely to ever be borrowed from another language (or to look at it another way, the words least likely to be replaced by a word borrowed from another language).
Also from the survey:
"The most loanword-friendly languages (in their set of 30) were Selice Romani (60%), Tarifiyt Berger (48%), Romanian (40%), English (39%), and Sramaccan (34%). The most loanword-resistant languages were Mandarin Chinese (1%), Ket (7%), Manage (7%), Seychelles Creole (8%), and Gurindji (9%).
The most borrowable word meanings were kangaroo (100%), olive (100%), motor (96%), camel (95%), coffee (93%)."
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