- Language contact can occur at language borders, between adstratum languages, or as the result of migration. - Language contact occurs in a variety of phenomena, including language convergence and borrowing. - The most common products are code-switching and mixed languages. Other hybrid languages, such as English, do not strictly fit into any of these categories.- The most common way that languages influence each other is the exchange of words: + The contemporary borrowing of English words into other languages, but this phenomenon is not new, nor is it very large by historical standards. + The large-scale importation of words from Latin, French and other languages into English in the 16th and 17th centuries was more significant. Some languages have borrowed so much that they have become scarcely recognizable.
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