mesolect

[mez-uh-lekt, mes-, mee-zuh-, -suh-]

noun Linguistics.

any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.

Origin:
meso- + (dia)lect

Related forms

mes·o·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

the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers

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