xenolectal

English

Etymology

xenolect +‎ -al

Adjective

xenolectal (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Of, or relating to a xenolect.
   • 1989, Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy, English across cultures, cultures across English, →ISBN, page 277:

     At some point in the decreolization process, however, xenolectal structures become masked by surface-structure mimicry of the matrilect, so that the apparent degree of xenolecticity of the evolving mimolect drops below the real level, as represented by the crossover of A-B and C-D.