nativization

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The process whereby a language acquires native speakers.
2. noun The process whereby a language in a new region acquires localised features, as by contact with pre-existing languages of the region, or in response to the local environment.
3. noun The process whereby a loan word’s pronunciation is adapted to the sound system of the borrowing language.

Similar words

xenization macroacquisition renativization italianization third language acquisition substitution language shift substrate acculturalization importation

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