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Mixed languages

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Bishnupriya Manipuri

Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and Bangladesh

language which is created by intensive contact between two or more languages, which does not clearly derive primarily from one language

Turkic cryptolect spoken in Western China

Shelta (; Irish: ) is a language spoken by Irish Travellers (), particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom. It is also widely known as the Cant, known to its native speakers in Ireland as ' or , and known to the academic or professional linguistic community as Shelta. Other terms for it include the Seldru, and Shelta Thari', among others (see below).

Llanito or Yanito () is a form of Andalusian Spanish heavily laced with words from English and other languages, such as Ligurian; it is spoken in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. It is commonly marked by a great deal of code switching between Andalusian Spanish and British English and by the use of Anglicisms and loanwords from other Mediterranean languages and dialects.

Michif (also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree) is one of the languages of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations (mainly Cree, Nakota, and Ojibwe) and fur trade workers of white ancestry (mainly French). The fathers of the Metis Nation were also known as voyageurs, the expert canoeists whose main occupation involved traveling long distances and trading with First Nations. This occupation also required forging relationships and common language with Indigenous contacts. The voyageurs and Indigenous women began intermarr

language of the Vedda people

Scandoromani is a Para-Romani dialect spoken by the Romanisael, a subgroup of the Romani people in Norway (c. 100–150 elderly Scandoromani speakers), and Sweden.

Cushitic language

Jopara () or Yopará () is a colloquial form of Guarani spoken in Paraguay which uses a number of Spanish loan words. Its name is from the Guarani word for “mixture”.

Barranquenho () is a Romance linguistic variety spoken in the Portuguese town of Barrancos, near the Spanish border. It is a mixed language, and can be considered either a variety of Portuguese (Alentejan Portuguese) heavily influenced by the Spanish dialects of neighbouring areas in Spain in Extremadura and Andalusia (especially those from Encinasola and Rosal de la Frontera), or a Spanish dialect (Extremaduran / Andalusian) heavily influenced by Portuguese.

extinct mixed language of Bering Island

Khamnigan Mongol

mixed Kazakh–Mongolian–Evenki language

Friso-Franconian group dialect family

Australian language

thumb|Manipravalam used to write Malayalam Manipravalam (, ) is a macaronic language found in some manuscripts of South India. It is a hybrid language, typically written in the Grantha script, which combines Sanskrit lexicon and Tamil morpho-syntax. According to language scholars Giovanni Ciotti and Marco Franceschini, the blending of Tamil and Sanskrit is evidenced in manuscripts and their colophons over a long period of time, and this ultimately may have contributed to the emergence of Manipravalam. However, the 14th century Sanskrit work Lilatilakam states that Manipravalam is a combination

language spoken in Ecuador

Ponaschemu [] is a mixed language that was formed by mixing German and Lower Sorbian. Sometimes it is taken as a dialect of German.

Para-Romani are various mixed languages of non-Indo-Aryan linguistic classification containing considerable admixture from the Romani language. They are spoken as the traditional vernacular of Romani communities, either in place of, or alongside, varieties of the Romani language. Some Para-Romani languages have no structural features of Romani at all, taking only the vocabulary from Romani.

Petuh (Petu) is a mixed language of Flensburg, a mixture of German, Low German, Danish, and Southern Jutish spoken in Flensburg on the German–Danish border. It is High German in vocabulary (with some Danish concepts and loan translations), but it has Danish and Low Saxon grammar and syntax. It originated in the 19th century and was still vibrant in the 1950s, but it is now on the verge of extinction.

Romani variety spoken in Estonia

Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin

Medefaidrin (Medefidrin), or '''', is a constructed language and script created as a Christian sacred language by an Ibibio congregation in 1930s Nigeria. It has its roots in glossolalia ('speaking in tongues').

artificial auxiliary language of the Eskaya clan of Bohol

Alemañol (a portmanteau formed of Spanish words alemán and español) is a mixed language, spoken by Spanish-speakers in German regions, which formed with German and Spanish. It appeared in the 1960s and it is used today by Spaniards, South Americans, and other Latin Americans in German regions. In the same way, it is also spoken by descendants of German settlers in South America, mostly in the Southern Cone. Alemañol is also spoken by South American residents of German descent in native German-speaking countries.

Bantu language spoken in Tanzania

Austronesian language

Hokaglish (; ; Tâi-lô: sann-lām-tsham-uē; ), formally known as Philippine Hybrid Hokkien, is a spoken language formed from contact primarily from Philippine Hokkien, Tagalog and Philippine English, with some influence from Philippine Spanish, Cantonese, and other local peripheral languages.

Beurla Reagaird

Scottish Gaelic-based cant

Northern Ireland Sign Language

sign language used mainly by deaf people in Northern Ireland

mixed language spoken in Scotland

Kuwaiti Persian

persian variety historically spoken in Kuwait

Franco-Italian, also known as Franco-Venetian or Franco-Lombard, in Italy as lingua franco-veneta "Franco-Venetan language", was a literary language used in parts of northern Italy, from the mid-13th century to into the 15th century. It was employed by writers including Brunetto Latini and Rustichello da Pisa and was presumably only a written language, and not a spoken one.

Modern Palestinian Judeo-Arabic

Variety of Arabic

mixed language of Southern China