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- Title
English Borrowings in the Modern Tamil Literature and Tamil Lexicon.
- Authors
Karunakaran, T.
- Abstract
When two or more languages in contact, they borrow words from each other as borrowings facilitate communication between people. English borrowings are enormously used by the writers of various kinds nowadays and it is well acclaimed by many people from all levels. Since English borrowings make communication easy, many writers opt to use English borrowings in their literary works in order to make the readers understand the contents well. Many Tamil equivalents to English borrowings are not used and English borrowings are used to express things clear when they write poems, plays, fictions, and short stories in Tamil. This paper captures the use of English borrowings in literary works produced by Tamil writers in Jaffna. To analyze the impact of use of English borrowings in Tamil literature, some literary works produced by Jaffna Tamil writers are taken for discussion.
- Subjects
JAFFNA (Sri Lanka); SRI Lanka; TAMIL literature; LOANWORDS; LANGUAGE &; languages -- Foreign elements
- Publication
Language in India, 2011, Vol 11, Issue 12, p141
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article