contact language
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contact language — noun : a language used for communication between groups having different native languages … Useful english dictionary
contact language — noun Date: 1950 pidgin … New Collegiate Dictionary
Contact Sign — is a variety or style of language that arises from contact between a Deaf sign language and a spoken language (or the written or manually coded form of the spoken language). Contact languages also arise between different sign languages, although… … Wikipedia
Contact sign — A contact sign language, or contact sign, is a variety or style of language that arises from contact between a deaf sign language and a spoken language (or the written or manually coded form of the spoken language). Contact languages also arise… … Wikipedia
Language death — In linguistics, language death (also language extinction or linguistic extinction, and rarely linguicide or glottophagy[1]) is a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given… … Wikipedia
Language contact — occurs when two or more languages or varieties interact. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. Multilingualism has likely been common throughout much of human history, and today most people in the world are multilingual.[1] … Wikipedia
Language attrition — is the loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language by individuals; it should be distinguished from language loss within a community (the latter process is referred to as language shift or language death). Language attrition… … Wikipedia
Language geography — is the branch of human geography that studies the geographic distribution of language or its constituent elements. There are two principal fields of study within the geography of language: the geography of languages , which deals with the… … Wikipedia
Contact (novel) — Contact … Wikipedia
Contact (film) — Contact Directed by Robert Zemeckis Produced by Robert Zemeckis Steve Starkey … Wikipedia
