Definition of Superstrate. Meaning of Superstrate. Synonyms of Superstrate

- contact, among other guidelines. A superstratum (plural: superstrata) or superstrate offers the counterpart to a substratum. When a different language influences...
- rather than merely in situations in which contact with a speaker of the superstrate was necessary. The English term creole comes from French créole, which...
- relation to horse-breeding and the military (thus forming a so-called superstrate). It is thus generally believed that Indo-Aryan peoples settled in Upper...
- Age Mitanni civilization of Upper Mesopotamia exhibit an Indo-Aryan superstrate. While what few written records left by the Mittani are either in Hurrian...
- language's vocabulary (lexicon). Often this language is also the dominant, or superstrate language, though this is not always the case, as can be seen in the historical...
- (1971)) suggests that pidgins need three languages to form, with one (the superstrate) being clearly dominant over the others. Linguists sometimes posit that...
- attributed to substrate influence, which is from Gaulish (Celtic), or superstrate influence, which is from Frankish (Germanic). In practice, it is difficult...
- essentially the same view in 2008, except considered that it might have been a superstrate instead of substrate situation (i.e., non-Indo-European speakers struggling...
- varieties of a creole language between those most and least similar to the superstrate language (that is, a closely related language whose speakers ****ert or...
- and a gradual process of Latinisation that gave Maltese a significant superstrate influence from Romance languages. By contrast, present-day Sicilian,...