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Adstratal Language
Adstratum Language
Bilingual Mixed Language
Bilingualism
Borrowing
Calque
Code Switching
Contact Situation
Creole (Language)
Crystallization
Dead Language
Diglossia
Dormant Language
Endangered Language
Expanded Pidgin
Extinct Language
Individual Bilingualism
Intensity Of Contact
Intertwined Language
Language Choice
Language Convergence
Language Death
Language Shift
Lexical Borrowing
Lexifier
Loan Translation
Loanword
Minority Language
Native Language Interference
Nativization
Pidgin (Language)
Prepidgin Jargon
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Prototypical Pidgin
Second Language Acquisition
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Societal Bilingualism
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Structural Borrowing
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Substrate Influence
Substratum Language
Superstratal Language
Superstratum Language
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Definition: The process through which a pidgin establishes regular grammatical conventions.
Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson