Kinds of Loanwords
- Borrowings
The words pertaining to the fields of commerce, administration, botany, food and military are the most numerous; this is to be expected because
- new innovations and goods usually reached the Sinhalese via the Tamils whose area of settlement separates them from the rest of South Asia and
- Tamil-speaking Muslims conducted most of the island's foreign trade since the 10th century.
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