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Basilect

The variety of speech that is most remote from the prestige variety, especially in an area where a creole is spoken.

Basilect is described in multiple online sources, as addition to our editors' articles, see section below for printable documents, Basilect books and related discussion.

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Continuum*: with one end labelled the 'acrolect' and the other labelled the 'basilect' while the whole intermediate zone is called the 'mesolect'.; creoles.free.fr

Distinctly Mesolectal Properties in Malay / Indonesian Dialects: lingweb.eva.mpg.de

The Roles of Singapore Standard English and Singlish: while basilect is regarded as Singlish (Platt, 1975, pp. 363-374; Platt & Weber, 1980, pp. 107-116).; www.bunkyo.ac.jp

Jamaican Creole \(JamC, known to its speakers as 'Patwa'\) is a: the description below is synchronic and does not privilege the basilect.; privatewww.essex.ac.uk

Initially, work on the creole continuum (DeCamp 1971, Bickerton: web.gc.cuny.edu

Suggested Web Resources

Post-creole continuum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: en.wikipedia.org

basilect - definition of basilect by the Free Online Dictionary: The variety of speech that is most remote from the prestige variety, especially in an area where a creole is spoken.; www.thefreedictionary.com

basilect - Wiktionary: basilect. Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jump to: navigation, search Wikipedia basilect (plural basilects).; en.wiktionary.org

basilect - alphaDictionary * Free English On-line Dictionary: Notes: The politically and economically weakest dialect becomes the basilect, and often vanishes beneath the pressures of the acrolect.; www.alphadictionary.com

Basilect | Define Basilect at Dictionary.com: Basilect definition at Dictionary.com, a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms and translation. Look it up now!; dictionary.reference.com

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