| basilect |
| Definition - In a post-creole community, it is the dialect that most closely resembles the creole. It is also the lowest register of a spoken language. |
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Etymology - The term was coined by Derek Bickerton by — I would guess — joining the combining form basi, base, with the word dialect. |
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Oxford English Dictionary - Its first citation is from 1977: "Speakers in a post-creole community are triply pressured: to avoid the basilect, to acquire the acrolect, and to vary the mesolect." (Language LIII. 330 ) |
