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====Borrowing====

All languages [[loanword|borrow words]] from other languages in various contexts. Loanwords imitate the form of the donor language, as in Finnic ''kuningas'', from Proto-Germanic *''kuningaz'' ('king'), with possible adaptations to the local phonology, as in Japanese ''sakkā'', from English ''soccer''. At first sight, borrowed words may mislead the investigator into seeing a genetic relationship, although they can more easily be identified with information on the historical stages of both the donor and receiver languages. Inherently, words that were borrowed from a common source (such as English ''coffee'' and Basque ''kafe'', ultimately from Arabic ''qahwah'') do share a genetic relationship, although limited to the history of this particular word.

====Areal diffusion====