Sentence examples for language contact from inspiring English sources

I didn't know the answer, so wrote to John McWhorter, an expert in language contact and change.

These types of similarities frequently arise through language contact and are not considered a valid basis for establishing genetic relationship.

Dutch emerged as a structurally distinct branch of West Germanic as the result of language contact between speakers of North Sea Germanic and speakers of the South Germanic "Franconian," or Frankish.

Mayan, some Mixe-Zoquean languages, Xinkan, and varieties of Nahua all share VOS word order, thought to be borrowed (due to language contact) among them, a relatively rare word order among the world's languages.

Even then, language contact would be useful in providing a motivation for the initial shift in speech rhythm.

The and variants are not related to [l] in their development and arose through language contact (Ang 洪惟仁 2003, 2012; Chuang and Fon 2017).

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.

We used three socio-demographic variables as proxies for esotericity: speaker population, geographic spread, and degree of inter-language contact.

Because direct measures for the esotericity are not available on a large scale, we used three proxy variables: speaker population, geographic spread, and degree of inter-language contact.

Someone who is fluent in that language will contact the home later to finish the job.

Maybe the common language of contact sports can be understood by football fans eager to vary their palate.