Loanwords in Selice Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Slovakia 1 ...

diachronic layers considered are: loanwords from Hungarian; loanwords from all current
contact languages, i.e. Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, and Vlax Romani; and loanwords
acquired since the contact with Greek, including those from the current contact
languages, i.e. roughly during the last millenium.
Word class Loans Hungarian Current L2s Last 1000 years
Nouns 75.6 83.3 –0.9 89.3 +0.6 94.9 –0.1
Adjectives 51.7 81.4 –2.8 82.9 –5.8 90.7 –4.3
Adverbs 50.0 100.0 +15.8 100.0 +11.3 100.0 +5.0
Verbs 44.7 91.9 +7.7 91.9 +3.2 96.6 +1.6
Function words 30.3 71.8 –12.4 71.8 –16.9 97.1 +2.1
Total 62.6 84.2 0.0 88.7 0.0 95.0 0.0
Table 3: Loanwords in Selice Romani by semantic word class and diachronic layer (percentages)
Hungarian loanwords (and the current loanwords in general) represent over four
fifths of all loanwords in any content word class; the proportion is somewhat lower in
function words. At least 90% of loanwords of any word class have been borrowed
within the last millenium of the history of Selice Romani. The following may also be
read off Tables 2 and 3: Hungarian is unique among the source languages in
contributing a higher proportion of loan-verbs than that of loan-nouns (with regard to all
loanwords of the respective word class). Slovak and Czech only contribute nouns, not
other word classes. The LWT sample appears to be representative in this respect:
although there is an established mechanism for morphological integration of Slovak and
Czech verbs (see Section 5.4), they appear to be overwhelmingly, if not exclusively,
nonce loanwords; and there are no established mechanisms for morphological
integration of Slovak and Czech adjectives.
4.4. Loanwords by semantic field
The standard breakdown of LWT loanwords by semantic fields is shown in Table 4.
Table 5, analogous to Table 3 in Section 4.3, displays the proportions of selected
diachronic layers of loanwords to all loanwords by semantic field.
[Table 4 around here]
Semantic field (field number) Loans Hungarian Current L2s Last 1000 years
Elšík Loanwords in Selice Romani 20 of 65