- 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...
- 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...
- Age
Mitanni civilisation of
Upper Mesopotamia exhibit an Indo-Aryan
superstrate.
While what few
written records left by the
Mittani are
either in Hurrian...
-
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...
-
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...
- *š > h, which, however,
postdated the
separation of
South Estonian.
Superstrate influence of the
neighboring Indo-European
language groups (Baltic and...
- (1971))
suggests that
pidgins need
three languages to form, with one (the
superstrate)
being clearly dominant over the others.
Linguists sometimes posit that...
- and a
gradual process of
Latinisation that gave
Maltese a
significant superstrate influence from
Romance languages. By contrast, present-day Sicilian,...