Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph ›› 2016, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (1): 93-100.doi: 10.16382/ j.cnki.1000-5579.2016.01.010

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Language Contact and the Emergence of New Languages

YOU Ru-Jie   

  • Online:2016-01-15 Published:2016-03-02
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Abstract: In modern China, all the new languages are hybrid languages which emerge due to language contact rather than population migration or the division of existing languages. A hybrid dialect is a new dialect with stable phonology after mixing up two or more dialects. It has been used as mother tongue by local residents with simplification of phonology as its most prominent feature. There are four types of hybrid dialects: boundary, migration, Creole and Koine dialects.