 Deflexion is a common feature of the history of many Indo-European languages.According to the Language Contact Hypothesis for Deflexion, supported by the comparison between Germanic languages (for instance, Icelandic and Afrikaans), this process is attributed to language contact.Specifically, the phenomenon occurs in the presence of large, influential groups of speakers that have acquired the leading idiom as a second language (L2) and so is limited to economical trade-offs widely considered acceptable.