Question for language geeks
May. 27th, 2016 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kestrellIs there a difference between a
contact language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_contact
and
Macaronic languge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_language#History
?
Is it that a contact language is spoken and Macaronic language is more likely to refer to a written or sung creative work? (Except the Macaronic language entry refers tot he Sublime song, which I love.)To give this a more specific context, I'm thinking of Salvatore's speaking style in _The Name of the Rose_ and of the minions language in the movies, both of which I have read referred to by linguists as examples of contact languages.
contact language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_contact
and
Macaronic languge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_language#History
?
Is it that a contact language is spoken and Macaronic language is more likely to refer to a written or sung creative work? (Except the Macaronic language entry refers tot he Sublime song, which I love.)To give this a more specific context, I'm thinking of Salvatore's speaking style in _The Name of the Rose_ and of the minions language in the movies, both of which I have read referred to by linguists as examples of contact languages.
