When I flew in to Shannon airport with my bike, I was lucky enough to spend my first day peddling 'round Eire with an Irish kid from the west coast who clued me in to what the Gaeltacht was and sort of how to pronounce the Irish part of the street signs. He'd gone to an Irish immersion school and the world of the Irish language was a fresh discovery for him as well as me.

The modern world has made the 'purity' concept of many insular tongues of doubtful use. You're probably gonna get loan words for new treats like bananas and avocados and new inventions like tractors and robots. And the word for robot in all other languages is borrowed from the Slavic root of the verb 'to work' courtesy of Playwright Karel Capek.

Even a language with over a hundred million speakers is going to show extensive inter-relationships due to the modern world. Russian for example borrowed the words for 'communism' and 'socialism' from English. And we all get Democracy from the Greeks, more specifically, the Athenians.