mixed languagen.
/ˌmɪks(t) ˈlaŋɡwɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˌmɪks(t) ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/ Now chiefly Linguistics.
A language made up of a mixture of elements from two or more languages; spec. (a) one which has been substantially influenced by another language (as English by Norman French) (now in non-technical use); (b) one which arises under conditions of contact between speakers of two or more languages, including pidgins and Creoles; a contact language.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > creole or mixed language
patroillart1340
mixed language1592
jargon1643
lingua franca1666
Frank1681
polyglot1715
olla podrida1850
pidgin1869
Creole1871
Mischsprache1930
creolized language1932
Melanesian Pidgin1942
1592 Surv. or Topogr. Descr. France 42 The other three dioceses do speake a mixed language, sometimes French sometimes Britton.
1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 28 That mixed Language called Lingua Franca, so necessary in Eastern Countries: It is made up of Italian, Turkish, Persian, and Arabian.
1848 C. Bunsen in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 17 277 The violent intrusion of a foreign element..can produce a mixed language, the grammar of which is of the native, the words..of the foreign stem.
1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) 55 A very intimate mixture of two languages is always a prelude to the complete extinction of the weaker one, and this is why few..of these thoroughly mixed languages become permanently fixed.
1905 O. Jespersen Growth & Struct. Eng. Lang. (1955) 39 The whole theory of Windisch about mixed languages turns upon this formula: [etc.].
1922 O. Jespersen Lang. xi. 224 These [pidgin] languages are not ‘mixed languages’ in the proper sense of that term.
1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. ii. x. 390 In several instances English used by people of an entirely different linguistic type results in a mixed or creolized language, the best known example being the so-called pidgin English of the Far East.
1994 Current Anthropol. Apr. 108/1 This truly mixed language [sc. Michif] arose around 1800 in the Central Canadian provinces.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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