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mixed language

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noun

  1. any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages See also pidgin creole lingua franca

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Kali Uchis found an audience for her mixed language hit “Telepatía” on TikTok, while Cardi B extended her reign with her No. 1 hit “Up,” which is nominated only for best rap performance.

From Seattle Times Nov. 23, 2021

They soon came less and less frequently, and finally in a kind of mixed language, a mingling of the new and the old, a fair transcript of his present style of conversation.

From The Golden House by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker

Out of this mixture of Sumerians and Semites there arose a mixed people, a mixed language, and a mixed religion.

From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

They spoke a little English, and, by a sort of compromise, a mixed language was used on the beach, which could be understood by all.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

In her mixed language she talked excitedly about the accident; nothing equals the islander's zest for sensation after his winter trance when the summer world comes to him.

From The Blue Man From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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