Questions tagged [substrate]
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Are some languages known to have taken grammatical features etc rather than just lexicon from their substrate languages?
It's common for the language of an area to have replaced an older language previously spoken there. The new language typically will have a few words which can be traced to the old language, the latter being called a "substrate". For instance,…
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