Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

metatypy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: metatypy
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The morphosyntactic change that a language undergoes due to its speakers being bilingual.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The Trans New Guinea language area is probably the result of repeated metatypy rather than of common genetic origin."

Etymology

Coined by Australian and British linguist Malcolm Ross in 1996.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does metatypy mean?: The morphosyntactic change that a language undergoes due to its speakers being bilingual.
Where does metatypy come from?: Coined by Australian and British linguist Malcolm Ross in 1996.

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