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  2. Mozarabs - Wikipedia

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    To this should be added literary remains in Latin which remained the language of the liturgy. There is evidence of a limited cultural borrowing from the Mozarabs by the Muslim community in Al-Andalus. For instance, the Muslims' adoption of the Christian solar calendar and holidays was an exclusively Andalusi phenomenon.

  3. Customization (anthropology) - Wikipedia

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    cultural borrowing; partial borrowing; pilot borrowing; customization; conceptual borrowing; However, within the review, customization is found to be most effective. Lewis argues that customization allows each country to take their own needs into account while allowing for cultural flows. This is important because cultural flows are often ...

  4. Cultural diffusion - Wikipedia

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    In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis, is the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another.

  5. Chinese influence on Korean culture - Wikipedia

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    Chinese influence on Korean culture can be traced back as early as the Goguryeo period; these influences can be demonstrated in the Goguryeo tomb mural paintings. [1]: 14 Throughout its history, Korea has been greatly influenced by Chinese culture, borrowing the written language, arts, religions, philosophy and models of government administration from China, and, in the process, transforming ...

  6. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Commonplace calques locus commūnis (referring to a generally applicable literary passage), which itself is a calque of Greek koinos topos [47] Devil's advocate calques advocātus diabolī, referring to an official appointed to present arguments against a proposed canonization or beatification in the Catholic Church [48]

  7. Influence of Arabic on other languages - Wikipedia

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    Most Berber languages have a high percentage of borrowing and influence from the Arabic language, as well as from other languages. [4] For example, Arabic loanwords represent 35% [5] to 46% [6] of the total vocabulary of the Kabyle language, and represent 51.7% of the total vocabulary of Tarifit. [7]

  8. Borrowing (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, borrowing is a type of language change in which a language or dialect undergoes change as a result of contact with another language or dialect. In typical cases of borrowing, speakers of one language (the "recipient" language) adopt into their own speech a novel linguistic feature that they were exposed to due to its presence in a different language (the "source" or "donor ...

  9. Cultural appropriation - Wikipedia

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    The concept of cultural appropriation has also been subject to heavy criticism, debate, and nuance. [30] [31] [32] Critics note that the concept is often misunderstood or misapplied by the general public and that charges of "cultural appropriation" are sometimes misapplied to situations. For example, some scholars conclude that trying food from ...