KnowraLanguage contactLinked fromLinked fromThe 80 pages that link to Language contact, each with the reason it gives.All 80Related 50Narrower topic 25Compared with 5Language familyCompared with: Contact can create similarities that resemble inheritance without shared descent.August SchleicherCompared with: Contact can make languages resemble one another without shared descent along a tree branch.Indo-European sound lawsCompared with: Borrowed words may imitate native patterns without reflecting inherited sound change.Sound correspondenceCompared with: Contact can spread similar words across languages without inherited sound correspondence.Nostratic languagesCompared with: Borrowing can imitate shared ancestry unless proposed cognates are carefully distinguished.