The MODE OF LOANWORD ADAPTATION IN MEITEILON

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to show the linguistic changes of Meiteilon as a result of the phenomenon of borrowing- that is, when Meiteilon speaker utilize lexical items in a foreign language. Since the late seventeenth century, there has been a significant amount of borrowing from Indo-Aryan languages, specifically, Sanskrit, Bengali, and Assamese; subsequently, from Hindi and English. In olden days, people  used to think that it was an honor to use borrowed words rather than native ones. Numerous indigenous terms vanished as a result. But a lot of people have started substituting native terms for foreign ones in recent years. This paper discusses the impact of borrowing and  the semantic changes  that result from borrowing.