Lang Belta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Belter Creole lang belta, from lang + belta, itself from English lang (language) + English Belter.

Proper noun

Lang Belta

  1. Synonym of Belter Creole.
    • 2021 October 5, Gessica Puccini, “Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse”, in Lingoblog‎[1]:
      The standard syllable structure of Lang Belta is CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant), but there are also syllables without one or both of these consonants. Therefore, other possible structures are: initial V, initial CV, and VC. For example, V ereluf ‘air’, VC unte ‘and’, CV xalte ‘to stay’, and CVC ereluf ‘air’.
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