język: Romanian alphabet

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The Romanian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Romanian language. It consists of 31 letters, five of which (Ă, Â, Î, Ș, and Ț) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language. The letters Q (chiu), W (dublu ve), and Y (igrec or i grec, meaning "Greek i") were formally introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982, although they had been used earlier. They occur only in foreign words and their Romanian derivatives, such as quasar, watt, and yoga. The letter K, although relatively older, is also rarely used and appears only in proper names and international neologisms such as kilogram, broker, karate. These four letters…

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Neologisms in the Bosnian Language Motivated by Proper Names. The subject of this research paper is neologisms motivated by proper names. The research aims to determine their presence in the Bosnian language, the context of their usage and their formation methods, as well as the sociolinguistic factors that affect their occurrence and potential disappearance. The analysis was conducted on a corpus extracted from printed media and their electronic editions, as well as from Bosnian-Herzegovinian portals. It has therefore been concluded that many of these neologisms are lexemes motivated by surnames, and somewhat fewer by personal names, names of countries, cities, regions and organizations. I…