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substratal

substratal adjective: of or pertaining to a substratum.

Adjective

substratal (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a substratum.
  2. Specifically, pertaining to a substrate language.
    • The West African languages that were substratal to most of the Atlantic creoles have regularly overt copulas […].2018, John H. McWhorter, The Creole Debate, Cambridge University Press, page 10

Origin of substratal

From substrate + -al, substratum + -al.

Questions about substratal

What does substratal mean?
Substratal means of or pertaining to a substratum.
What part of speech is substratal?
Substratal is an adjective.

Words near substratal in the dictionary

  1. substractive
  2. substracts
  3. substrain
  4. substrains
  5. substrata
  6. substratal
  7. substrate
  8. substrated
  9. substrategic
  10. substrategies
  11. substrategy

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