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Feb 14, 2012
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ac•ro•lect



Pronunciation: (ak'ru-lekt"), [key]
n. Ling.
the variety of language in a creole continuum that approximates most closely the standard variety of a major international language, as the English spoken in Guyana or Jamaica. Cf. basilect, mesolect.

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