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I love coming from a place with a teeny tiny language (not just amount of speakers, but also vocabulary.
We have become experts at stealing words from other languages. Not just the big obvious ones (French, German, English or Russian) but also from Romani and Yiddish.
Or thieves cants and similar.

Like one of our cultural institutions. To "fika" - to have coffee and cake with someone and chat. The word is from a cant where they mixed syllables. "Fi-Ka" = "Ka-Fi" from the Månsing language