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language contacts

language contacts is the plural of language contact.

Meaning of language contact

Noun

language contact (plural language contacts)

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

Questions about language contacts

What is language contacts the plural of?
Language contacts is the plural of language contact.

Words near language contacts in the dictionary

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

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