lexifier
The language of a pidgin or creole that serves as the basis for most of its vocabulary.
Noun
- The language of a pidgin or creole that serves as the basis for most of its vocabulary.
- A great deal of linguistic evidence reveals that creole creators transformed the lexifier in a fashion unexplainable as just hybridization, but well known from studies of pidginization and second-language acquisition. -...
Origin
From lexify + -er.