Editing Language family (section)

====Linguistic interference and borrowing====
When languages are in [[Language contact|contact with one another]], either of them may influence the other through [[Language transfer#Broader effects of language transfer|linguistic interference]] such as borrowing. For example, [[French language|French]] has influenced [[English language|English]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]] has influenced [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Sanskrit]] has influenced [[Tamil language|Tamil]], and [[Chinese language|Chinese]] has influenced [[Japanese language|Japanese]] in this way. However, such influence does not constitute (and is not a measure of) a genetic relationship between the languages concerned. Linguistic interference can occur between languages that are genetically closely related, between languages that are distantly related (like English and French, which are distantly related [[Indo-European language]]s) and between languages that have no genetic relationship.