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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The variety of speech that is most remote from the prestige variety, especially in an area where a creole is spoken. For example, in Jamaica, Jamaican Creole is the basilect whereas Standard Jamaican English is the acrolect or prestige language.
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- basi- + (dia)lect.
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chained_bear And architect.
No, not really. Jan 10, 2008
sionnach See also acrolect, mesolect. Jan 10, 2008
reesetee Huh. Who knew there was a post-creole speech continuum? Learn something new every day. :-) Jan 10, 2008
yarb According to wikipedia, the "lower boundary of a post-creole speech continuum".
The upper boundary is apparently called the arcolect. Jan 10, 2008