postcreole

adj

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- Portuguese crioulobor. Spanish criollo French créolebor. English Creole English creole English postcreole From post- + creole.

Definitions

  1. After a creole

    After a creole; after decreolization has taken place.

    • There is a postcreole situation when the creole has lost most of its speakers, as in Louisiana[…]
  2. A creole language after decreolization has taken place.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA