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language convergence  convergence  linguistic convergence
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Language convergence is a type of linguistic change in which languages come to resemble one another structurally as a result of prolonged language contact and mutual interference, regardless of whether those languages belong to the same language family, i.e. stem from a common genealogical proto-language. Wikipedia
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Language convergence is a type of linguistic change in which languages come to resemble one another structurally as a result of prolonged language contact and mutual interference, regardless of whether those languages belong to the same language family, i.e. stem from a common genealogical proto-language. Wikipedia
The tendency of languages whose speaker communities overlap significantly to influence each other and become more similar as a result Wikipedia Disambiguation