adstrate

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ad·strate

(ăd′strāt′)

A language that influences a neighboring language, as by being a source of loanwords.

ad·stra′tal (-strāt′əl) adj.

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Smith explores substrate or adstrate influence in phonology, while Gbe influence in the left periphery is the subject of a chapter by Aboh.

Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

65) that has been affected by substrate Celtic, adstrate Norse and superstate Romance (p.

Bernd Kortmann and Johan van der Auwera (eds.) 2011. The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive guide (The World of Linguistics 1)

As is well known, Ossetic shares a lot of features with the neighbouring Caucasian languages at all levels; therefore we could hypothesize a powerful influence of the Caucasian substrate or adstrate (Abaev 1970a = 1995); contact induced phenomena, taking into account the bi- and sometimes trilingual situation of the population (Thordarson 1985), cannot of course be denied; in the case of aspect, however, they can be postulated, if at all, in the sense that contact with Georgian and Russian could have strengthened or accelerated already present tendencies.