basilect

[bey-zuh-lekt, baz-uh-]

noun Linguistics.

the variety of language in a creole continuum that is most distinct from the acrolect.

Origin:
1960–65; basi- (as combining form of base¹ or basis) + (dia)lect

Related forms

ba·si·lec·tal, adjective

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a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language

one of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme; ox, oxen

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