basilect
/ˈbasɪlɛkt
/ /ˈbeɪsɪlɛkt/noun Linguistics
A less prestigious dialect or variety of a particular language. Often contrasted with acrolect.At this time the great majority of people in the community were speakers primarily of this basilect....
- Some like the basilect and some like the acrolect.
- English would be the acrolect while Jamaican would be the basilect.
Derivatives
basilectal
- They are arranged along a post-Creole continuum which has acrolectal (those varieties closest to the superstrate) at one end and basilectal (those varieties furthest from it) at the other.
- Furthermore, labels such as rare, historical, rural and basilectal help to categorize the items.
- The article focuses on the basilectal features of the oldest speaker and considers how such features became stigmatized.
Origin
1960s: from basis + -lect as in dialect.
- Fuller, Margaret
- Fuller, Melville Weston
- Fuller, R. Buckminster
- fuller's earth
- fuller's teasel
- Fuller, Thomas
- Fullerton
- full face
- full-fashioned
- full-figured
- full-flavored
- full-flavoured
- full-fledged
- full flood
- full forward
- full-frontal
- full gainer
- full-grown
- full growth
- full-hearted
- full-heartedly
- full-heartedness
- full house
- full-length
- full lock