Media Lengua
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Media Lengua is a mixed language spoken in the Ecuadorian highlands. Most linguists describe it as a bilingual mixed language because of its split between roots and suffixes. Media Lengua is formed through various processes of lexification (relexification, translexification and adlexification) where nearly all the lexical roots in Quichua, including core vocabulary, are replaced by their Spanish counterparts. Impressionistically, the Spanish-derived lexicon in Media Lengua appears to conform to Quichua phonology while maintaining Quichua word order and the vast majority of Quichua’s agglutinating suffixes.