language contact
Linguistics
noun
Contact between two different (usually neighbouring) language communities, especially resulting in the development of common linguistic features; frequently attributive designating a situation in which this occurs.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in American Anthropologist.
- symbiont
- symbiosis
- symbiotic
- symbiotically
- symbol
- symbolic
- symbolical
- symbolically
- symbolic interactionism
- symbolic logic
- symbolise
- symbolism
- symbolist
- symbolistic
- symbolization
- symbolize
- symbology
- symmetric
- symmetrical
- symmetrically
- symmetrize
- symmetry
- symmetry breaking
- Symons, Julian
- sympathectomy