acrolect 1. The language variety among a group of related varieties that is closest to the standard form of the language. 2. The most prestigious or `highest” social dialect of any language.
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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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