Re: Spanglish
John Cowan <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: I don’t think a generative mechanism for hooking up languages for this > scenario makes sense at all. The number of actual contact languages is > small enough. Code-switching as a behavior seems to happen wherever there is bilingualism, whether stable or not. The relatively short WP.en article gives examples of Spanish-English, Shona-English, Hindi-English, Swahili-English, Wolof-French, French-Tamil, and Hopi-Tewa. Countries where bi- and multilingualism are common are riddled with code-switching: the Philippines in particular seem to have a great deal of it, involving not only the colonial languages but code-switching between different Philippine languages as well. It’s rare to find books or other materials in them. That is a more cogent point. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan [email protected] Even the best of friends cannot attend each others' funeral. --Kehlog Albran, The Profit _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages