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contact language

noun

Definitions

  1. A language that influences another, especially because it is understood by a relevant…

    A language that influences another, especially because it is understood by a relevant portion of the speech community.

    • The main contact languages providing Western words in Arabic today are English and French.

  2. A pidgin language.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for contact language. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA