The BG Language Creation Guide

Borrowings

This page was adapted from help for step 11 in the language creation series.

When a word is borrowed, it's pronunciation almost always has to change to fit in with the phonology of the new language. Spanish and Japanese, for example, both borrowed the word 'strike' from English, and to keep our discussion lively, we'll also assume that Liqupa borrowed it, too. Here's how that was done: