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> ...that would be a pidgin... That's a creole... What is it called when people (e.g. an colonized nation) generally speak one language but introduce a huge lo
by qwerty456127 3y ago
> ...that would be a pidgin... That's a creole...
What is it called when people (e.g. an colonized nation) generally speak one language but introduce a huge lot of loanwords from another into it (e.g. use their native words while speaking the colonizer language or the opposite) and generations grow speaking this 2-language hybrid as their mother tounge?
- pmontra 3y agoLike England after Hastings 1066 with the French loanwords, or more slowly in Italy after several invasions ~400-1800, or at much larger scale in all of the Americas from North to South after 1492? I googled a little and found "linguistic imperialism" [1] which assumes some power relationship between the two languages. That's not probably the general concept you were looking for. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_imperialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_imperialism
- qwerty456127 3y agoThese examples apparently demonstrate how a language massively affects another. What I meant is when a new language emerges, roughly equivalent to an average between the two, while both source languages remain well, so as a result we get 3 languages spoken by large populations.