substratal
Adjective
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Adjective
substratal (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a substratum.
- (linguistics) Specifically, pertaining to a substrate language.
- 2018, John H. McWhorter, The Creole Debate, Cambridge University Press, p. 10:
- The West African languages that were substratal to most of the Atlantic creoles have regularly overt copulas […].
- 2018, John H. McWhorter, The Creole Debate, Cambridge University Press, p. 10:
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