noun
mixed language; hybrid language; pidgin
Linguistics term for a language that blends elements from two or more source languages, including pidgins and creoles.
混合語の研究は言語接触の理解に役立つ。
The study of mixed languages helps us understand language contact.
noun
word formed via contamination
In historical linguistics, a word created by blending two similar words, e.g., through folk etymology or analogical influence.
この混合語は二つの古い語形が混ざってできたと考えられている。
This contaminated word is thought to have arisen from the blending of two older forms.
ピジン is a loanword for 'pidgin', a specific type of mixed language with simplified grammar, whereas 混合語 is the general linguistic term.
Compound of 混合 (mixing) + 語 (language, word). The term is a calque from Western linguistics.