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Language Contact with Chinese
Edited by Zhiming Bao
[Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1] 2023
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Natalie Operstein. The Lingua Franca: Contact-Induced Language Change in the Mediterranean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. [Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact]. 405 pp. ISBN 9781316518311 GBP 85. https://​doi​.org​/10​.1017​/9781009000161

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