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The 80 pages that link to Language contact, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical linguisticsRelated: Contact complicates the tree-like histories inferred from inherited similarities.

• Language shiftNarrower topic: Contact is the broader setting; it can occur without community-wide replacement.

• Language familyCompared with: Contact can create similarities that resemble inheritance without shared descent.

• Cultural diffusionRelated: Contact spreads words and structures, leaving lasting traces in languages.

• Koine GreekNarrower topic: Koine circulated among multilingual populations and absorbed or shared features through contact.

• Language changeRelated: Contact introduces borrowed forms and can encourage structural changes.

• Turkic languagesNarrower topic: It accounts for many cross-family similarities across the Eurasian regions where Turkic languages spread.

• Language isolateRelated: Contact can make unrelated languages resemble each other and complicate ancestry claims.

• Proto-Indo-European languageRelated: Contact can create similarities that resemble inheritance and complicate reconstruction.

• Linguistic typologyRelated: Contact helps explain why neighboring languages may converge on similar structures.

• Proto-languageRelated: Borrowing can resemble inherited similarity and complicate reconstruction.

• Comparative linguisticsRelated: Contact offers an alternative source for similarities between languages.

• EtymologyRelated: Contact between communities explains many borrowed words and shared vocabulary.

• Grammatical genderRelated: Contact can reshape gender marking, agreement patterns, and the distribution of noun classes.

• Germanic languagesNarrower topic: Contact can resemble inherited similarity and complicate the classification of Germanic features.

• Afroasiatic languagesRelated: Contact complicates efforts to distinguish inherited similarities from borrowed features.

• Semantic changeRelated: Contact can introduce meanings or encourage new uses of existing words.

• Sino-Tibetan languagesRelated: Long contact across the region can create similarities that do not reflect shared ancestry.

• Sinitic languagesNarrower topic: Contact with neighboring languages has shaped Sinitic vocabularies and regional speech.

• Heritage languageNarrower topic: Heritage-language experience develops where languages meet within families and communities.

• LoanwordNarrower topic: Regular contact between speech communities creates the conditions for words to cross language boundaries.

• CreolizationRelated: Repeated multilingual contact can generate new speech forms alongside broader cultural change.

• GlottochronologyRelated: Borrowed words can appear shared without common inheritance, distorting the method's counts.

• Linguistic areaNarrower topic: It supplies the social conditions from which linguistic areas develop.

• NeologismRelated: Contact introduces borrowed words that may become new parts of a language.

• World EnglishesRelated: Contact with local languages helps shape vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation in English varieties.

• Altaic languagesRelated: Contact offers a competing explanation for similarities often cited as evidence of common ancestry.

• Creole languageNarrower topic: Sustained contact supplies the conditions in which creoles develop.

• EthnonymRelated: Contact can reshape ethnonyms as names pass between languages.

• Linguistic paleontologyRelated: Borrowing can make cultural vocabulary appear older or more widely inherited than it is.

• Natural languageRelated: Contact introduces borrowed words and structural influences into languages.

• Ryukyuan languagesRelated: Contact with Japanese and neighboring languages has shaped contemporary Ryukyuan speech.

• AccentRelated: Contact between speech communities can introduce or reshape accent features.

• August SchleicherCompared with: Contact can make languages resemble one another without shared descent along a tree branch.

• LadinoNarrower topic: Contact with neighboring languages reshaped Ladino after Sephardic communities left Iberia.

• Linguistic diversityRelated: Contact produces borrowing, convergence, and new varieties without necessarily eliminating languages.

• Nilo-Saharan languagesRelated: Contact can explain shared vocabulary and structural traits without common descent.

• Arabic dialectsRelated: Contact with neighboring languages has contributed loanwords and structural features to dialects.

• Evolution of languagesRelated: Contact can alter vocabulary and grammar without a language splitting into separate branches.

• Indo-European sound lawsCompared with: Borrowed words may imitate native patterns without reflecting inherited sound change.

• PidginNarrower topic: Sustained contact between groups creates the conditions in which a pidgin can emerge.

• Scottish EnglishNarrower topic: Contact with Scots and Gaelic has shaped Scottish English over centuries.

• Sound correspondenceCompared with: Contact can spread similar words across languages without inherited sound correspondence.

• Language variationRelated: Contact can introduce forms that circulate across varieties.

• Marathi languageNarrower topic: Marathi's vocabulary and usage have developed through contact with neighboring languages.

• Mongolic languagesNarrower topic: Contact helps distinguish borrowed similarities from inherited Mongolic features.

• Moroccan ArabicNarrower topic: Darija’s vocabulary and usage reflect centuries of contact among Morocco’s languages.

• English dialectsNarrower topic: Contact with Indigenous, African, and immigrant languages has shaped English dialects worldwide.

• Mesoamerican languagesRelated: Centuries of multilingual interaction helped shape regional similarities.

• Nostratic languagesCompared with: Borrowing can imitate shared ancestry unless proposed cognates are carefully distinguished.