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language shift

noun

Definitions

  1. The process whereby a speech community shifts to a different language.

    • Creoles, which involve a language shift, are found in communities where a pidgin language had served as a lingua franca.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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