Abstract
Language contact is the phenomenon that results when speakers use two or more languages in the same social context. The study of language contact is interested in both the factors that bring speakers, and by extension their languages, together, as well as the outcomes that result to the languages in contact and their community of speakers. Migration and immigration, colonialization, education, trade, and technology all contribute to language contact. Common outcomes include borrowing, code‐switching, bilingualism, and language shift. More extreme outcomes may result in the formation of a new language such as a pidgin, creole, or mixed language, or the loss of a language altogether through language endangerment and death.
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