[Corpora-List] foreign words in German

[Harald Hammarström]

2011/9/28 maxwell <maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu>

> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:10:55 -0400, chris brew <cbrew at acm.org> wrote:
> > This is all ridiculously hard. There are not many words in any
> > language which are solidly native.
>
> I can think of one language--Waorani (Auca), of Ecuador--which had nothing
> *but* native words until the mid-1960s.  That's right, not one identifiable
> loan word.  Unfortunately, most of us aren't doing annotation in Wao...
>

Could you justify this claim? according to Peeke (1973:4)  there were two
"obvious" loan words in pre-contact Waorani, implying that there were two of
them and possibly more, less obvious, loan words. In addition, documentation
of the eastern neighbour Tequiraka is so scant that if there are Tequiraka
borrowings in the non-basic vocabulary of Waorani, there's no way to know.

all the best,

H

*  p 4 "Isolation was so complete that only two obvious loanwords were found
upon initial entrance into the area in 1958"

Peeke, Catherine. (1973) Preliminary Grammar of Auca (Summer Institute of
Linguistics: Publications in Linguistics 39). The Summer Institute of
Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
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