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Language assimilation

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language replacementnoun(linguistics) Synonym of language shift.
language transfernoun(linguistics, uncountable) The (correct or incorrect) application of linguistic features (grammar, vocabulary, etc.) from one language to another, such as false friends.
language shiftnoun(linguistics) The process whereby a speech community shifts to a different language.
left-to-right assimilationnoun(phonetics) Synonym of progressive assimilation.
assimilationnounThe act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
right-to-left assimilationnoun(phonetics) Synonym of regressive assimilation.
semantic shiftnoun(linguistics) A change in the meaning of a word over time.
semantic driftnounSynonym of semantic shift.
xenizationnounThe act of spending time in a foreign culture.
relexificationnoun(linguistics) The mechanism of language change by which one language replaces much or all of its lexicon with that of another language.
regressive assimilationnoun(phonetics, phonology) An assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the following sound.
italianizationnounThe conversion of a non-Italian culture to an Italian one.
loanshiftnounThe situation in which a word changes or extends its meaning under the influence of another language.
substitutionnounThe act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
substratenounAn underlying layer; a substratum.
code-switchingnoun(linguistics) The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.
interferencenounThe act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
macroacquisitionnoun(linguistics) The acquisition of a second language by a speech community.
babelizationnounThe situation where a region that formerly spoke a single language comes to speak several different languages.
semitizationnounThe process of a religion increasingly acquiring the characteristics of the Abrahamic religions.

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