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...

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Polynesian languages), some Indigenous languages of the Americas (such as Cherokee), and Vietnamese. Through language contact, some words that are originally...

most specialists in language contact do not consider English to be a true mixed language. English is classified as a Germanic language because it shares...

"Multilingualism and language contact | Languages In Danger". Retrieved 2020-04-09. "The study of pidgin and creole languages" (PDF). "Language varieties: Pidgins...

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

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

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

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...

School for the Deaf (ASD) in Hartford, Connecticut, from a situation of language contact. Since then, ASL use has been propagated widely by schools for the...

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

regard it as a gestural system rather than a true sign language. The earliest records of contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples of the Gulf Coast...

(1884b). "The Aramaic Language". Hebraica. 1 (1–2): 98–115. doi:10.1086/368803. JSTOR 527111. Kapeliuk, Olga (2012). "Language Contact between Aramaic Dialects...

Markedness and salience in language contact and second-language acquisition: evidence from a non-canonical contact language. Language Sciences. Vol. 25. Elsevier...

Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language. In...

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...

Gheg dialects and between Albanian and other Indo-European languages, as well as through contact linguistics studying early loanwords from and into Albanian...

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

morphology and syntax were also affected by language contact with Parthian, but to a lesser extent. Contact with Greek, Persian, and Syriac also resulted...

languages have been subject to phenomena like language contact, language expansion, language shift and language death. A case in point is the Bantu expansion...

electrical contact is an electrical circuit component found in electrical switches, relays, connectors and circuit breakers. Each contact is a piece of...

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

sprachbund rather than common ancestry, with the languages showing influence from prolonged contact. The continued use of the term "Altaic" to refer to...

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

development of a pidgin usually requires: prolonged, regular contact between the different language communities a need to communicate between them an absence...