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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(linguistics) The morphosyntactic change that a language undergoes due to its speakers being bilingual..
The Trans New Guinea language area is probably the result of repeated metatypy rather than of common genetic origin.
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Metatypy means (linguistics) The morphosyntactic change that a language undergoes due to its speakers being bilingual..
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The Trans New Guinea language area is probably the result of repeated metatypy rather than of common genetic origin.
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