mesolectal
English
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editmesolectal (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Relating to a mesolect.
- 1985, Nessa Wolfson, Joan Manes, Language of Inequality, →ISBN, page 158:
- I prepared the three Matched Guise samples myself, controlling the forms carefully to represent basilectal, mesolectal, and acrolectal levels of usage