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contact languages

contact languages is the plural of contact language.

Meaning of contact language

Noun

contact language (plural contact languages)

  1. A language that influences another, especially because it is understood by a relevant portion of the speech community.
    • The main contact languages providing Western words in Arabic today are English and French.
  2. A pidgin language.

Questions about contact languages

What is contact languages the plural of?
Contact languages is the plural of contact language.

Words near contact languages in the dictionary

  1. contact hitter
  2. contact hitters
  3. contact inhibition
  4. contact juggling
  5. contact language
  6. contact languages
  7. contact lens
  8. contact lenses
  9. contact level
  10. contact levels
  11. contact line

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contact languages (page history and authors); contact language (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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