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language contact

language contact noun: the phenomenon in which speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other.

Noun

language contact (plural language contacts)

  1. The phenomenon in which speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other.

language contact meaning in Tamil

language contact in Tamil

மொழிப் புணர்ச்சி

Forms of language contact

plurallanguage contacts

Questions about language contact

What does language contact mean?
Language contact means the phenomenon in which speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other.
What is language contact in Tamil?
Language contact in Tamil is மொழிப் புணர்ச்சி. See Language contact meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is language contact?
Language contact is a noun.
What is the plural of language contact?
The plural of language contact is language contacts.

Words near language contact in the dictionary

  1. language branch
  2. language branches
  3. language change
  4. language code
  5. language codes
  6. language contact
  7. language contacts
  8. language continua
  9. language continuum
  10. language cops
  11. language death

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Adapted from Wiktionary: language contact (page history and authors); language contact (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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