Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl

--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:

> From: Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angli and Saxones.
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 1:41 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette"
> <anjarrette@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > but it just seems noteworthy that the language with
> probably the
> > highest proportion of foreign-origin vocabulary in the
> world
>
>
> As it seems to me. Albanian or Persian might actually hold
> that
> title, I'll try to find out the facts.
>
> Andrew

According to what I've read, the all-time champ is Chamorro. It's listed in this book of the world's languages that most of us probably read long ago, and whose name escapes me. Supposedly 95% of its vocabulary is from Spanish but it maintains an Austronesian morphology. They even tell time in Spanish. If you know Spanish you get the gist but you don't necessarily know the tense, subject, object, etc.
I've read that Albanian still has 10% of its native vocabulary and that Persian is higher.