Language convergence

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Language convergence is a type of contact-induced change whereby languages with many bilingual speakers mutually borrow morphological and syntactic features, making their typology more similar.

• The convergence project
• School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester

See also

• Sprachbund
• Language merger
• Linguistic divergence
• Dialect levelling

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