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decreolize

American  
[dee-kree-uh-lahyz] / diˈkri əˌlaɪz /
especially British, decreolise

verb (used with object)

Linguistics.
decreolized, decreolizing

  1. to modify (a creole language) in the direction of a standard form of the language on which most of the vocabulary of the creole is based.

Other Word Forms

  • decreolization noun

Etymology

Origin of decreolize

de- + creolize

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