mesolect
[ mez-uh-lekt, mes-, mee-zuh-, -suh- ]
nounLinguistics.
any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
Origin of mesolect
1Other words from mesolect
- mes·o·lec·tal, adjective
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