Words both created by speakers and transmitted from other speech communities have deeply historical dimensions. They often enable the historian of culture, society, language, and writing to identify borrowers, the kinds of accepted loans, and by extension the historical relations of different linguistic and cultural groups. Not every loanword or feature of loanwords will be informative, but the overall picture will usually be revealing and important.

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