THE existence of mixed languages is one of the vexed questions of Comparative Philology. By a mixed language is meant a language in which the grammars of two or more different languages have been ...

Language contact encompasses the myriad ways in which speakers of different tongues interact, influencing one another’s phonology, grammar and lexicon. When sustained and intense, such encounters may ...

Indigenous youth are creating new languages, something that is very rare across the globe. Flickr/Rusty Stewart, CC BY-SA By now we know that traditional Indigenous languages are losing speakers ...

A new language, one that combines elements of English with traditional indigenous speech, has been discovered in northern Australia, according to a new study. The language, now known as Light Warlpiri ...

A new large-scale database and atlas of key structural properties of mixed languages from the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific has been published by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in different languages. However, a new paper from the Concordia Infant Research Lab ...

A linguist from the University of Michigan has discovered a new language in a remote Indigenous community in northern Australia. The language, Light Walpiri, is a combination of a traditional dialect ...