language contact

(linguistics) The phenomenon in which speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other.

Japanese Meaning

言語接触：複数の言語または方言の話者が交流し、互いに影響を与え合う現象

Language contact between traders and local communities produced many loanwords in the coastal dialect.

商人と地元の話者との言語接触により、沿岸方言には多くの借用語が生まれた。

Sense（1）

(linguistics) The phenomenon in which speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other.

language contacts

（ plural ）