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Sino-Xenic
Or ·Դ··Ծ
[sahy-noh-zee-nik, -zen-ik]
adjective
Linguistics.
of or relating to languages, such as Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, that are not related to Chinese but have borrowed extensively from it.
Sino-Xenic vocabulary;
Sino-Xenic pronunciations.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Sino-Xenic1
Coined by U.S. linguist Samuel Martin (1924–2009) in 1953; Sino- ( def. ) + xen(o)- ( def. ) + -ic ( def. )
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