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If a bollywoody scriptwriter of today is to create a fresh new holy book for a new religion for the elite and middle class people, how many foreign words would he use ? Language is a very fluid thing. Throughout history, people borroeed words from each other the same way they they share tools or files today. Languages had existed long before writing system was invented. The first people to write a word may not be the first people to use that word. Writing system with the use of alphabet itself is relatively very recent compared to the age of languages. The etymology of any word can not be accurately determined with absolute certainty . Debates among linguists will remain forever.