Sentence examples for contact language from inspiring English sources

The other chief harvest of his long researches is the brilliantly vivid contact language migrants like his characters were forced to invent, an anarchic clamour of different tongues grabbing for understanding.

Originally a contact language developed in the 1400s as European sailors plied the Niger Delta coastline, the colourful tongue has become a lingua franca in a nation that is home to several hundred languages and dialects.

In some areas of South Carolina and Georgia the African Americans who had been imported to work the rice and cotton plantations developed a contact language called Gullah, or Geechee, that made use of many structural and lexical features of their native languages.

When engaging Indigenous people in the Blue Card system the PSBA have identified several challenges, including remoteness/isolation, establishing contact, language barriers, literacy, cultural issues and proof of identity (Commission for Children Young People and Child Guardian, 2014), all of which present significant challenges when dealing with the "submission process" (Fig. 1).

Based on the household screening survey, 8,862 adults were selected for detailed telephone interviews; 5,630 individuals completed the detailed telephone interview; 1874 refused to participate, 134 were ineligible, and 1272 were excluded due to physical/mental impairment, unable to contact, language barriers, and deceased – an overall response rate of 75%.

Pidgins are contact languages invented by people who don't share a language to use.

Turkic has been influenced by a number of different contact languages.

This variety of English is comparable to such "contact languages" as Sranan (Taki-taki) of Suriname and Melanesian Pidgins.

The chapter concentrates on "contact languages," those that spring up when two cultures come in contact and need a quick common language, often for reasons of commerce.

Rivers, of course, also provide transport; the authors speculate that where rivers meet, cultures tend to do so as well, leading to new "contact" languages resulting from (originally imperfect) communication between the two groups.

In general, it is expected that closely related languages and contact languages (languages spoken by people in close contact with speakers of the target language [17]), will exhibit greatest phonological similarity.