A Study of English Loanwords for Science and Technology in the Myanmar Language

This paper is concerned with the study of English loanwords in the field of science and
technology in the Myanmar language. The main objective of the study is to determine which type
and manner of borrowing occurs most in the Myanmar language. The scope of this study is
limited to common English loanwords found in the four issues of a well-known IT journal,
namely Internet Journal, published in June 2012 and they were analyzed using Haugen's
classification framework on lexical borrowing. The findings have revealed that of all three types
of borrowing: loanwords, loanshifts and loanblends, loanwords occupy the largest part of lexical
borrowing in the field of science and technology in the Myanmar language.