English

Noun

satellect ‎(plural satellects)

1. A creole that exists within a culture where one of the parent languages remains the dominant local language.
   • 1971, Working Papers in Linguistics - Volume 3, Parts 3-4, page 24:

     There is reason to suspect that since this over-generalization is done by one satellect (i.e., HC) , it must be a fundamental phenomenon of all satellects.

   • 1972, Richard R. Day, Patterns of variation in copula and tense in the Hawaiian post-creole continuum (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Hawaii), page 14:

     In Day (1971), I proposed that in doing so, the creole (or, in the terminology used in that paper, the satellect), could demonstrate the reverse of natural language development. That is, instead of language change through a process of rule simplification, re-ordering, and deletion (cf. King 1969; Kiparsky 1968a), the satellect could change by some of its rules becoming more restrictive, less simple.

   • 1974, David De Camp & ‎Ian F. Hancock, Pidgins and Creoles: Current Trends and Prospects, ISBN 0878402063, page 89:

     If one parent remains culturally dominant, however, the creole becomes a satellite ('satellect' or 'acolutholect') to that dominant language, which may be termed the 'matrilect'. In time, the creole normally begins recreolizing with the matrilect by borrowing from it. The different degrees in which the matrilect has been mixed into the creole consititute a 'gradatum' of overlapping systems in which the farthest from the matrilect at any moment is termed the 'basilect' by William Stewart.