Quite often the interaction between groups is socially unequal, and this is reflected in the fact that in many cases borrowing of words or constructions goes mostly or entirely in one direction, from the more powerful or prestigious group to the less favored one. The languages of socially subordinated groups may from quite(꾀) an early period of contact provide for objects or practices with which speakers of the more powerful group were previously unfamiliar, but the effects of contact in that di