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dialect
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE local ▪ The narrator uses the local dialect where necessary. ▪ Many of the campesinos were illiterate; some spoke only their local dialects . ▪ These latter services must, to be effective, use local languages and ...
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The term dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos , from the ancient Greek word διάλεκτος diálektos , "discourse", from διά diá , "through" and λέγω legō , "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena. ...
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n. 1 (context linguistics English) A variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation. ...
Usage examples of dialect.
All he could remember were the sounds of voices over time, the subtle shifting and changing of accents and language dialects as the years passed.
They all consorted together, talking various dialects of Aeolic, Ionian, Attic Greek, and so forth, which were plainly not intelligible to each other.
The main body of ancient tradition here agrees with the evidence of language: the poems are composed in the Ionic dialect, with an admixture of Aeolic forms.
It is almost as difficult to learn a dialect as a new language, and but for the key which the Alemannic gave me, I should have been utterly at sea.
Gelnhausen told his wretched bawdy tales and decanted clownish wisdom in three different dialects, for in the course of the war Stoffel had acquired the Westphalian and Alemannic stammer on top of his native Hessian.
Kennebec, a stream in Maine, in the Algonkin means snake, and Antietam, the creek in Maryland of tragic celebrity, in an Iroquois dialect has the same significance.
Maine, in the Algonkin means snake, and Antietam, the creek in Maryland of tragic celebrity, in an Iroquois dialect has the same significance.
Now, astonishingly, it appeared that a dialect of Athapaskan might have migrated as far south as the Peruvian Amazon.
Journal of the American Oriental Society most fitly be called the Avestan dialect.
The collection, such as it was, was in the Avestan dialect, which had grown partially obsolete and unintelligible.
Sanskrit, Pali, Awadhi commonspeak, Bangla, Oriya, Tamil, Kannad, Marathi, Malayali, and a half-dozen other dialects of the subcontinent.
When they fell silent, unable to name a tree, the seer supplied its name, reeling off a succession of alternatives in Sanskrit, Pali, Awadhi commonspeak, Bangla, Oriya, Tamil, Kannad, Marathi, Malayali, and a half-dozen other dialects of the subcontinent.
A Turkic dialect, Azerbaijani is spoken by several million people in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan and the contiguous areas of Iran and Afghanistan.
Martin spoke neither Urdu nor the Baluchi dialect, and the man from Karachi spoke only a smattering of Pashto, with sign language and some Arabic from the Koran they got along well.
The other was Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli -- a great poet, little known outside Rome, since he wrote in the rough, dirty, blasphemous dialect of the Roman streets.