Wiktionary:Dialects

Dialects are regional or historic (temporal) varieties of individual languages.


 * See Languages and Families for discussions of languages and of language families, respectively.

Dialectal senses, spellings, forms etc
Wiktionary uses to label as dialectal:
 * 1) alternative spellings:
 * 2)  colour
 * 3)  color
 * 4) words:
 * 5)  anorak
 * 6) inflected forms:
 * 7)  learnt
 * 8)  learned

Wiktionary uses (which stands for "accent") to label pronunciations as dialectal:

Dialects in etymologies
Wiktionary uses a small number of exceptional codes to represent specific varieties of languages in etymology sections, while not having full entries in those languages. Some may be deprecated. These codes are stored in Module:etymology languages/data.