Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other. The study of language contact is called...

to be derived through language contact and thus they are not truly related. Eventually though, high amounts of language contact and inconsistent changes...

intelligence First contact (anthropology), an initial meeting of two cultures Language contact, the interaction of two or more languages The Contact (1963 film)...

A contact sign language, or contact sign, is a variety or style of language that arises from contact between deaf individuals using a sign language and...

on language structure. One source of language change is contact and the resulting diffusion of linguistic traits between languages. Language contact occurs...

archaic features. Another distinguishing feature is the centuries-long language contact with German, which is most noticeable in the vocabulary and to a lesser...

influence of these languages on the vocabulary and grammar of Modern English is widely acknowledged, most specialists in language contact do not consider...

models of Indo-European relatedness: The role of contact in reconstruction". Journal of Language Contact. 6 (2): 379–410. doi:10.1163/19552629-00602009...

characteristics between the languages are attributed presently to extensive prehistoric language contact. Turkic languages are null-subject languages, have vowel harmony...

result of prolonged language contact and mutual interference, regardless of whether those languages belong to the same language family, i.e. stem from a common...

A mixed language, also referred to as a hybrid language or fusion language, is a type of contact language that arises among a bilingual group combining...

The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact: Volume 1: Population Movement and Language Change. Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics. Cambridge...

understand this process as occurring: the first is through language contact impacting a language independent of borrowings, and the second is explicitly...

often. The result of language contact depends on the power relationship between the languages of the groups that are in contact. The prevailing view among...

ethnography, a contact zone is a conceptual space where different cultures interact. In a 1991 keynote address to the Modern Language Association titled...

Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages is a 2014 scholarly book by the Dutch linguist Peter Schrijver, published by Routledge. Chapter...

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable form of contact language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing...

linguists in favor of language contact, although it continues to be supported by a small but stable scholarly minority. Like the Uralic language family, which...

Pano, Barbakoa, Cholon-Hibito, Jaqi, Jivaro, and Kawapana language families due to contact. Quechua has borrowed a large number of Spanish words, such...

creole (Spanish: criollo), or Spanish-based creole language, is a creole language (contact language with native speakers) for which Spanish serves as its...

The Journal of Language Contact is a peer-reviewed academic journal published in English and French. It covers research on language contact, use, and change...

Barbary Coast, developed a contact language known as Mediterranean Lingua Franca or sabir. It was influenced by the languages of Italy, Catalan, Occitan...

Parthian was a Western Middle Iranian language. Language contact made it share some features of Eastern Iranian languages, the influence of which is attested...

experienced intensive contact with the Nivkhs during the course of their history. It is not known to what extent this has affected the language. Linguists believe...

on lexical data which may be better explained as originating from language contact. In particular, almost all Burushaski agricultural vocabulary appears...

is necessary that they do not arise because of language contact after initial separation. A language area can result from widespread bilingualism, perhaps...

pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified form of contact language that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in...

An extinct language or dead language is a language with no living native speakers. A dormant language is a dead language that still serves as a symbol...

Multilingualism in European Language History (Amsterdam: John Benjamins), 18–33. Trotter, David (2006a) 'Language Contact, Multilingualism, and the Evidence...

ˈkeːl] ) is a Finnic language and the official language of Estonia. It is written in the Latin script and is the first language of the majority of the...