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Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. When speakers of different languages interact closely, it is typical for their languages to influence each other. Language
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See moreThe most common way that languages influence each other is the exchange of words. Much is made about the contemporary borrowing of English words into other languages, but this phenomenon is not new, and it is not
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See moreThe influence can go deeper, extending to the exchange of even basic characteristics of a language such as morphology and grammar.
Newar, for example, spoken in Nepal, is a Sino-Tibetan language distantly related to Chinese but...
See moreThe result of the contact of two languages can be the replacement of one by the other. This is most common when one language has a higher social position (prestige).
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See moreWhen language shift occurs, the language that is replaced (known as the substratum) can leave a profound impression on the replacing language (known as the superstratum) when people retain features of the substratum as they learn the new language and pass these
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See moreLanguage contact can also lead to the development of new languages when people without a common language interact closely. Resulting from this contact a pidgin may develop, which may eventually become a full-fledged creole language through
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See moreChange as a result of contact is often one-sided. Chinese, for instance, has had a profound effect on the development of Japanese, but Chinese remains relatively free of Japanese influence other than some modern terms that were reborrowed after they were coined in
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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. This includes linguistic, anthropological, historical, and cognitive factors. The journal was established in 2007. The editors-in-chief are Alexandra Aikhenvald (The Cairns Institute, James Cook University) and Robert Nicolaï (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis).
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