LANGUAGES IN CONTACT AND LINGUISTIC BORROWING: ADAPTATION OF LOANWORDS

Languages are in continuous contact. Language contact have been studied in three directions: a. acquiring of language b. language derivation c. translation In the process of language derivation model adaptations appear. The model adaptations show primary and secondary adaptation appearing on four levels. Adaptation according to levels is carried out according to types of transphonemization, transmorphemization and levels of change of meanings on semantic level. Languages in contact and interference among languages are very complex phenomena because they are linked together with contacts and interwoven by diverse cultures and civilizations, so that their relations are not only linguistic based, but extra linguistic based, too. The words of romance origin we meet in our speech have not entered our speech at once. To the contrary this transition has lasted for several centuries. Modern trends of learning foreign languages reflect the need of universal contacts among people and nations which makes it even more important for the research of Romance borrowings in the speeches of our coast because of the preservation of language-cultural heritage for the next generations.