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  2. Language contact - Wikipedia

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    The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. Language contact can occur at language borders , [ 1 ] between adstratum languages, or as the result of migration , with an intrusive language acting as either a superstratum or a substratum .

  3. Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages

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    Since Saami is known to have borrowed many words from a language now lost as Saami culture spread northwards into Scandinavia, Schrijver argues that Saami, West Germanic and North Germanic were all affected in similar ways by contact with a language or group of languages which 'shared a peculiar vowel system, whose features were impressed on ...

  4. Journal of Language Contact - Wikipedia

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    The Journal of Language Contact is a peer-reviewed academic journal [1] published in English and French. It covers research on language contact, use, and change. This includes linguistic, anthropological, historical, and cognitive factors. [2] The journal was established in 2007.

  5. Language convergence - Wikipedia

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    Language convergence is a type of linguistic change in which languages come to resemble one another structurally as a 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 genealogical proto-language. [1]

  6. Category:Language contact - Wikipedia

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    Category: Language contact. 25 languages. ... Albanian–Eastern Romance linguistic parallels; Arabic language influence on the Spanish language; Äynu language; B.

  7. Language family - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 November 2024. Group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor 2005 map of the contemporary distribution of the world's primary language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The ...

  8. Stratum (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a stratum (Latin for 'layer') or strate is a historical layer of language that influences or is influenced by another language through contact.The notion of "strata" was first developed by the Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli (1829–1907), and became known in the English-speaking world through the work of two different authors in 1932.

  9. Middle English creole hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The Middle English creole hypothesis is a proposal that Middle English was a creole, which is usually defined as a language that develops during contact between two groups speaking different languages and that loses much of the grammatical elaboration of its source languages in the process.