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Sakti should be replaced too then

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Languages originate from other languages or produce another language; it will never emerge on its own. The old languages struggle when it comes to the modern world with new technological words, where language scholars will give up and loan those words from another language. Modern languages loan words from the older languages too – e.g Parkir (Parking) which refer to   tempat letak kereta . Lending and borrowing doesn’t make the language stupid, it doesn’t mean the language is not civilized but it helps in the continued usage of a language. Languages never had problems with other languages like how religion has/had; it gets victimized by the practitioner, yes the religion practitioner. Things get better when the language can speak for themselves - unfortunately the alphabet is not made up of living creatures but helps to make mankind civilized. It reminds me of the quote in John 1:1,   “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”.  In layman ’s