# metatypy

> English word · Noun

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

## Etymology
Coined by Australian and British linguist Malcolm Ross in 1996.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/metatypy