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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6879 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 1 of 12 01 December 2006 at 3:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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What is the name of the phenomenon when there is a language spoken while being surrounded by a language or languages of a totally different family, etc?
The example I can think of is Hungarian surrounded by Indo-European languages. I suppose that perhaps Basque, Navajo, and Lakota, just to name a few, would also count. I believe the word is a German term, Sprach something or the other, but I haven't been able to find it again. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6901 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 2 of 12 01 December 2006 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was going to suggest the term 'isolate' but that really refers to languages that seem to be unrelated to *any* language family (Basque being an example).
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6920 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 12 01 December 2006 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think of the Swedish "språk-ö" which in English would be "language island" (however, I've never heard that word before).
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| Paul Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7132 days ago 114 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 12 01 December 2006 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know either...i can't find a word anywhere, nor have i ever heard of
one. But you could also include Romanian in your list. I've sometimes heard it refered to in french: 'comme une île de latinité dans un océan slave'. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 7115 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 5 of 12 01 December 2006 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you're adventurous you could just invent a word for it. Borrow a couple Latin-based words and Anglicise them. j/k
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| jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6920 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 12 01 December 2006 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | ||
I searched for the expression which seemed to be quite OK:
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| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7088 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 7 of 12 01 December 2006 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Language-island does refer to that. A country/area that it's borders become a language border. Eg: Hungary.
It doesn't have to be the difference between like Indo-European and Semitic, it can also refer to the difference of Germanic and Romance. There probably is a German word that is used linguistically as well, but we were just told about the English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| RogueRook Diglot Senior Member Germany N/A Joined 6843 days ago 174 posts - 177 votes 6 sounds Speaks: German*, English Studies: Hungarian, Turkish | Message 8 of 12 01 December 2006 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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You might be looking for Sprachinsel?
One could say: Ungarisch bildet eine Sprachinsel im Indo-Europäischen Sprachgebiet. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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