mixed language

noun

any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages See also pidgin creole lingua franca

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Feist compares it with English and considers it a “mixed language” almost from the start, and many facts seem to favor this view.

It appears that a very mixed language is spoken in the kingdom of Wild Oats.

This mixed language still survives among some of the inferior races of men.

They speak a mixed language collected from Persian Arabic, Syrian, and other tongues.

To it, beyond all others, the designation of being a mixed language applies; indeed it corresponds altogether to this character.

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