dialect

Etymology
From, from , , from , from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)  A lect (often a  or  language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).
 * 2)  A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.
 * 3)  Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
 * 4)  A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.
 * 5)  A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
 * 6)  A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
 * 1)  Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
 * 2)  A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.
 * 3)  A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
 * 4)  A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
 * 1)  A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.
 * 2)  A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
 * 3)  A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
 * 1)  A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
 * 2)  A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
 * 1)  A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
 * 1)  A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.

Usage notes

 * In some linguistic traditions, the term "dialect" is restricted to nonstandard lects. In scholarly English usage, it refers to both standardized and vernacular forms of language.
 * The difference between a language and a dialect is not always clear, and often has more to do with political boundaries than with linguistic differences. It is generally considered that people who speak different dialects of the same language can understand each other, while people who speak different languages cannot, however, in some cases, people who speak different dialects of the same language are mutually unintelligible. Compare species in the biological sense.

Translations

 * Acehnese: lugat
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: لهجة
 * South Levantine Arabic: لهجة
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: উপভাষা
 * Asturian: dialeutu, dialectu
 * Azerbaijani:, ,
 * Bashkir: диалект
 * Belarusian: дыяле́кт, гаво́рка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:, ဒေသန္တရစကား
 * Carpathian Rusyn: діале́кт
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: pinulongan, sinultihan
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 方言, 地方話, 話, 土話
 * Dungan: фон-ян
 * Eastern Min: 方言
 * Hakka: 方言
 * Hokkien:, 土話
 * Mandarin:, 地方話, ,
 * Wu: 方言
 * Crimean Tatar: şive
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: dialekt
 * Dutch:, mondaard,
 * Esperanto: dialekto
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: málføri
 * Finnish:, aluemurre
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: დიალექტი, კილო, კილოკავი, ენაკავი
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Mundart, Dialäkt
 * Luxembourgish: Mondaart
 * Rhine Franconian: Dialegde
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: διάλεκτος
 * Gujarati: બોલી
 * Hebrew:, ,
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish:
 * Istriot: gialìto
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalmyk: айлһ
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: диалект
 * Khmer:, គ្រាមភាសា
 * Komi-Zyrian: сёрнисикас, диалект
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: زار
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ພາສາທ້ອງຖິ່ນ
 * Latin: dialectos, dialectus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: tarmė, dialektas
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Mundort, Mundaart, Mundart; Dialekt, Diälekt
 * Macedonian: дијале́кт, на́речје,
 * Malay:, dialek
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: djalett
 * Maori: reo-ā-iwi, tūreo
 * Marathi: बोली, पोटभाषा
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: наречий
 * Mirandese: dialeto
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Nepali: बोली, भाषिका
 * Norman: dgialecte
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, målføre,
 * Nynorsk: dialekt, målføre, mål
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ଉପଭାଷା
 * Oromo: loqoda
 * Ottoman Turkish: لهجه
 * Pashto: ګړدود, لهجه
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian: ,
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali: ᱵᱳᱞᱤ
 * Scots: byleid
 * Scottish Gaelic: dualchainnt
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: на́речје, на́рјечје, дија̀лект, дија̀лекат
 * Roman:, , , dijàlekat
 * Silesian: djalekt
 * Sinhalese: උපභාෂාව
 * Slovak: nárečie,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swabian: Dialäggd
 * Swahili: lahaja
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: wikain, diyalekto
 * Tajik: лаҳҷа, шева, гӯиш
 * Tamil: பேச்சுவழக்கு
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཡུལ་སྐད
 * Tigrinya: ላህጃ
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Turkmen: dialekt, şiwe
 * Udmurt: диалект, наречие
 * Ukrainian:, нарі́ччя, го́вір
 * Urdu: بولی, لَہْجَہ
 * Uyghur: دىئالېكت, شېۋە, لەھجە
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese: (土語),  (方語),
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: hom lus
 * Yiddish: דיאַלעקט

Etymology
From, from , , from , from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)   language variety

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  language socially subordinate to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard, but not a variety of it or in any other sense derived from it