Since their entrance in a given language is motivated by different reasons, two general kinds of borrowings must be distinguished: necessary borrowings which name ideas and concepts for which the recipient language does not have any equivalent term and superfluous borrowings which, on the contrary, refer to realities for which the recipient language already has equivalent terms. However, not all the borrowings that enter a language are alike. Lexical borrowings can be regarded as one of the clearest and most direct consequences of any language contact situation.
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