If you've ever listened to Spanish and thought some of the words resemble Arabic, it's because there's a millennium-old relationship between the two languages. According to some historians, there are ...

IT is considered quite normal for languages to borrow words from other languages. When a language takes words from other languages, these “new arrivals” are usually called borrowings or loan words.

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