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...

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

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...

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...

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