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The least prestigious variety of a language within a speech community, or the variety furthest away from the acrolect. See also dialect, idiolect, lect. Compare acrolect, mesolect. [From Greek basis bottom + legein to speak]
From: basilect in A Dictionary of Psychology »
Subjects: Psychology.
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