xenolectal

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English

Etymology

From xenolect +‎ -al.

Adjective

xenolectal (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Of, or relating to a xenolect.
    • 1989, Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy, English across cultures, cultures across English, →ISBN, page 277:
      At some point in the decreolization process, however, xenolectal structures become masked by surface-structure mimicry of the matrilect, so that the apparent degree of xenolecticity of the evolving mimolect drops below the real level, as represented by the crossover of A-B and C-D.