Sentence examples for mixed language from inspiring English sources
noun
A language formed by combining two languages, keeping elements of the grammar of both.
What Chaucer made of this mixed language was just about everything.
He speaks a mixed language: partly Silicon Valley's hubristic patter of total transformation, partly free-market evangelism, all of it infused with the conviction that technology and capitalism can magically erase the past and construct a streamlined future.
The impact on small, Welsh speaking communities was immense and this period ignited a tradition of mixed language songs known as Macaronic.
This chapter explains the needs for mixed language projects, and how simple assembly code files can be created for ARM®, IAR, and GNU Compiler Collection tool chains.
The results showed that, compared to the single language condition, sustained bilingual control (mixed language condition) induced activation in the bilateral inferior frontal, middle prefrontal and frontal gyri (BA 45/46).
It should be obvious that any method applied to combine L1 and L2 will create a new logic L which contains the signature (logic symbols such as connectives, quantifiers, propositional variables etc). of both logics: L will be defined in a mixed language, which allows combinations of symbols of the underlying languages.
The familiar noises of answering machines and televisions, of traffic and trains, of capricious cell phones and a babel of mixed languages filter through the evening, interrupting and reshaping narrative.
Mixed languages are not altogether uncommon throughout the world, but the types of grammatical innovations seen with Light Warlpiri are considered rare, O'Shannessy said.
In situations of extreme and sustained language contact, it may lead to the formation of new mixed languages that cannot be considered to belong to a single language family.
Other examples of mixed languages include Gurindji Kriol, a blend of Kriol and traditional Gurindji, which is spoken by communities in Australia's Northern Territory; and Michif, which is spoken by communities along the U.S.-Canada border, and combines verbal structures from Cree, an Algonquin language, and noun structures from Métis French, a type of Canadian French dialect.
The official language of South Africa, Afrikaans developed as Dutch and indigenous African settlers mixed languages beginning in the 17th century.
