substratal
English edit
Etymology edit
From substrate + -al, substratum + -al.
Adjective edit
substratal (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a substratum.
- (linguistics) Specifically, pertaining to a substrate language.
- 2018, John H. McWhorter, The Creole Debate, Cambridge University Press, page 10:
- The West African languages that were substratal to most of the Atlantic creoles have regularly overt copulas […].