Editing Language contact (section)

=== Borrowing of other language features ===
The influence can go deeper, extending to the exchange of even basic characteristics of a language such as [[morphology (linguistics)|morphology]] and [[grammar]].

[[Newar language|Newar]], for example, spoken in [[Nepal]], is a [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan language]] distantly related to [[Chinese language|Chinese]] but has had so many centuries of contact with neighbouring [[Indo-Iranian languages]] that it has even developed noun [[inflection]], a trait that is typical of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] family but rare in Sino-Tibetan. Newar has also absorbed grammatical features like [[verb tenses]].

Also, [[Romanian language|Romanian]] was influenced by the [[Slavic languages]] that were spoken by neighbouring tribes in the centuries after the fall of the [[Roman Empire]] not only in vocabulary but also [[phonology]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} English has a few phrases, adapted from French, in which the adjective follows the noun: court-martial, attorney-general, Lake Superior.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}