💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Xenization"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| importationnoun | The act or an instance of importing. |
| substitutionnoun | The act of substituting or the state of being substituted. |
| italianizationnoun | The 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. |
| modificationnoun | The 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. |
| babelizationnoun | The 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. |
| interlanguagenoun | A 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). |
| interferencenoun | The 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. |
| contaminationnoun | The 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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