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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

substratal en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From substrate + -al, substratum + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to a substratum.
  2. (not-comparable) Specifically, pertaining to a substrate language.
    • 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, page 10: