language contact

language contact

English

Noun

language contact (plural language contacts)

1. (linguistics) The phenomenon in which speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other.

Translations

phenomenon

Chinese: Mandarin: 語言接觸／语言接触 (yǔyán jiēchù) Dutch: taalcontact n Finnish: kielikontakti German: Sprachkontakt (de) m

Anagrams

• contact language