Talk:Language contact

I've added the start of a bibliography, but the page could do with more. --Pfold 12:52, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Speech variaties?

Langauge contact is not only about speech variaties....sign languages have it too. I think the definition has to be changed. I won't do it cos I don't really know how Jenncasper (talk) 20:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Uncited materials from lead

I've removed the following claims from the lead. They don't seem to be reflected in the body of the article, so they don't belong in the lead anyway, and they have remained uncited for some years, which may indicate WP:OR. If they deserve a place in the article, it is with citations and in the main text. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:16, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

"In tribal hunter-gatherer societies, multilingualism was common, as tribes must communicate with neighboring peoples and there is often intermarriage . In present-day areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa, where there is much variation in language over short distances, it is usual for anyone who has dealings outside their own town or village to know two or more languages."

"Languages normally develop by gradually accumulating dialectal differences until two dialects cease to be mutually intelligible, somewhat analogous to the species barrier in biology."

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diffusion

The borrowing of vocabulary items is a common process, also called lexical diffusion. This reflects the fact that the entire vocabulary of a language constitutes a lexicon, with individual vocabulary items or words constituting being lexical item.

Is This of the second sentence only the use of the term lexical? Otherwise I don't see how a definition can be a cause of a process. —Tamfang (talk) 03:48, 10 February 2024 (UTC)