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postcreole

postcreole adjective: after a creole; after decreolization has taken place.

Adjective

postcreole (not comparable)

  1. 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[…]2010, Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World, page 870

Noun

postcreole (plural postcreoles)

  1. A creole language after decreolization has taken place.

Forms of postcreole

pluralpostcreoles

Origin of postcreole

From post- + creole.

Questions about postcreole

What does postcreole mean?
Postcreole means after a creole; after decreolization has taken place.
What part of speech is postcreole?
Postcreole can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near postcreole in the dictionary

  1. postcranial
  2. postcranially
  3. postcraniotomy
  4. postcranium
  5. postcrash
  6. postcreole
  7. postcreoles
  8. postcricoid
  9. postcrime
  10. postcrisis
  11. postcristid

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