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Obce elementy językowe w moskiewskim argot
Foreign language elements in the Moscow argot

Author(s): Leonarda Dacewicz
Subject(s): Sociolinguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Summary/Abstract: Materials for analysis were taken from Dictionary o f Moscow Argot by W. S. Jelistratow. New borrowings in Moscow argot are comparatively small in number. English and American words have formed the largest group. Aparat from that there are borrowings from French, German, Polish, Spanish, Japanese and other languages.

  • Issue Year: 1998
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 183-188
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish