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The term '''contact language''' is often used informally to refer to a language with which another language has been in [[language contact|contact]].

===Example===
Linguists often say things such as "English has borrowed many words, but almost no syntactic features from its major contact languages Latin, Old Norse, and Norman French".

===Polysemy===
''Contact language'' also has a more specific meaning, see [[contact language (created by contact)]].

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