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The variety of language in an area undergoing decreolization that is closest to the standard variety of a major international language, such as standard Jamaican English.
noun - a high form of a language
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| The variety of speech that is closest to a standard prestige language, especially in an area in which a creole is spoken. For example, Standard Jamaican English is the acrolect where Jamaican Creole is spoken. |
| the most prestigious dialect or variety of a particular language. |
| a form of a language that is considered to be better than other forms by certain people |
| The most prestigious dialect or variety of a particular language. |
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| A post-creole continuum or simply creole continuum is a dialect continuum of varieties of a creole language between those most and least similar to the superstrate language (that is, a closely related language whose speakers assert dominance of some sort). Due to social, political, and economic factors, a creole language can decreolize towards one of the languages from which it is descended, aligning its morphology, phonology, and syntax to the local standard of the dominant language but to different degrees depending on a speaker's status. |