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Dialect

A dialect is a variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. This may include dominant and standardized varieties as well as vernacular, unwritten, or non-standardized varieties, such as those used in developing countries or isolated areas. The dialects of the same language are mainly distinguished from each other by differences in…

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Dialect as linguistic variety of a language

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Standard and nonstandard dialects

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Dialect as linguistic variety of a language

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related to Ukraine · 34
Dialect → According, Around, Belarusian, Brotherhood, Cossack Hetmanate, Europe, Following, However, Hromada, In, Khlopomanstvo, Lithuanian Commonwealth, Little Russian, Methodius, Narodnichestvo, Narodniks, Nations, Orthodox, Poland, Polish
related to Italy · 31
Dialect → Albanian, Catalan, Croatian, During, Franco-Provençal, French, Friulian, German, Germanic Tyrolean, Greek, However, Italian, Italian Greek, Italianization, Italy, Italy's, Ladin, Lombard Alessandro Manzoni, Middle Ages, Neapolitan
related to Difference between dialects and languages · 29
Dialect → American, Andalusian, Andalusian Spanish, Another, Asturian, Caribbean, Castilian, Central America, Costa Rica, Costa Rican, Coșeriu, English, Eugenio Coșeriu, For, In, ISO, It, Jamaican, Language, Limón Creole English
related to Greater China · 29
Dialect → All, Beijing, Cantonese, China, Chinese, Classical Chinese, English, From, Gan, Guangzhou, Hakka, Hokkien, Hong Kong, In, Macau, Mandarin, Min, Ming, Other Chinese, Republic
related to Arabic · 23
Dialect → Arabian, Arabian Peninsula, Arabic, Arabic Language, Egypt, Included, Iran, Iraq, Islam, It, Jastrow, Levant, Levantine, Modern Standard Arabic, North Africa, Spoken, Sudanese, Syrian, The Egyptian, There
related to Hindi · 21
Dialect → Bhojpuri, Bihar, Braj Bhasha, But, Chhattisgarh, Chhattisgarhi, Constitution, Delhi, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Haryanvi, Hindi, India, Khari Boli, Maithili, Other, Over, Schedule, Standard Hindi, Standard Urdu, This
related to The Balkans · 21
Dialect → Before, Both, Bulgaria, Bulgarian, Certain, Chakavian, Croatia, Croatian, How, Kajkavian, Macedonian, North Macedonia, Second World War, Serbia, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Shtokavian, Sociolinguists, South Slavic, The
related to Sociolinguistic definitions · 17
Dialect → According, Another, Dutch, East Franconian German, For, German, German-speaking, High German, In, Low Saxon, Netherlands, Similarly, Standard Dutch, Standard German, Thus, Westphalian, Yiddish
related to North Africa · 14
Dialect → Algeria, Although, Arabic, Darija, Darijas, Examples, In Tunisia, Islam, Islamic, Literary Arabic, Morocco, North African, Officially, Qur'an
related to Linguistic distance · 12
Dialect → An, Dutch, For, French, German, Indo-European, Linguistic, Romance Branch, Some, Spanish, West-Germanic, When

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language dialects languages varieties standard variety linguistic german spoken may italian often used regional considered arabic italy mutual intelligibility term

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Dialectis avariety of language spoken by a particular group of people0.90text
phonologyinstance ofThe dialects of the same language are mainly distinguished from each other by differences in linguistic features0.80text
morphologyinstance ofThe dialects of the same language are mainly distinguished from each other by differences in linguistic features0.80text
syntaxinstance ofThe dialects of the same language are mainly distinguished from each other by differences in linguistic features0.80text
vocabulary.The terminstance ofThe dialects of the same language are mainly distinguished from each other by differences in linguistic features0.80text
sociolectinstance ofor with more specialized terms0.80text
social classinstance ofbut a dialect may also be defined in other ways0.80text
a sociolectinstance ofbut a dialect may also be defined in other ways0.80text
or ethnicityinstance ofbut a dialect may also be defined in other ways0.80text
a ethnolect.According to this definitioninstance ofbut a dialect may also be defined in other ways0.80text
any variety of a given language can be classified asinstance ofbut a dialect may also be defined in other ways0.80text
Mandarininstance ofwhose variations0.80text

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