Meaning

2 senses
  1. The language of the dominant local culture, in the situation where a pidgin or creole is formed from the language of the dominant culture and another outside introduced language.

  2. The idiolect of the mother or the mother's clan in a household where the mother and the father speak different idiolects.

Origin

From matri- + -lect.

From matri- + -lect.

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Forms

plural: matrilects
Singularmatrilect
Pluralmatrilects

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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