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Xenization

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importationnounThe act or an instance of importing.
substitutionnounThe act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
italianizationnounThe conversion of a non-Italian culture to an Italian one.
learned borrowingnoun(linguistics) A word or other linguistic form borrowed from one language into another purposely instead of through normal language contact, especially one from a classical language.
modificationnounThe result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
nativizationnoun(linguistics) The process whereby a language in a new region acquires localised features, as by contact with pre-existing languages of the region, or in response to the local environment.
relexificationnoun(linguistics) The mechanism of language change by which one language replaces much or all of its lexicon with that of another language.
babelizationnounThe situation where a region that formerly spoke a single language comes to speak several different languages.
foreignizationnoun(translation studies) The act of foreignizing a text.
language assimilationnoun(linguistics) Synonym of language shift.
interlanguagenounA language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language.
syncretismnoun(chiefly religion) The reconciliation or fusion of different systems or beliefs (religious, cultural, or otherwise cosmologic or ontologic).
interferencenounThe act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
multilingualizationnoun(software engineering) The act of adapting or localizing something to, into, or for multiple languages
macroacquisitionnoun(linguistics) The acquisition of a second language by a speech community.
contaminationnounThe act or process of contaminating.
perintegrationnoun(linguistics) A secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.
reborrowingnoun(linguistics) A word that passed from language A into language B and thence back into language A. Such words may have changed in meaning and/or form.
third language acquisitionnoun(linguistics) The process of individuals who are already multilingual learning additional languages.
language transfernoun(linguistics, uncountable) The (correct or incorrect) application of linguistic features (grammar, vocabulary, etc.) from one language to another, such as false friends.

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