dialect
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈdaɪəˌlɛkt/
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dialecto
- So Cantonese is my first language because that's the dialect that we just speak about.
- a dialect spoken
- a regional dialect
- a spoken dialect
You could transfer between these dialects fairly easily.
- You could transfer between these dialects fairly easily.
- If there were Oscars for dialect coaches, he would have won twelve.
- And so we, he learned Spanish or he learned whatever dialect they speak in that village.
- He changes his dialect, he changes his voice.
- I was say I was about to say how many dialects are there in China?
- I, I was surprised at how little I understood their dialect.
- Like I can see the trans, how it's the movement, the transfer of dialect is happening.
- OK, so growing up in Mauritius, our mother tongue is Creole, which is a dialect of French.
- But now we are seeing globally a new genesis of dialects in in places like Singapore and India.
- To speak like the weirdest dialect like yeah, yeah.
- And so they speak some sort of some, some dialect of the Yenne language.
Examples
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Sometimes whole African phrases appear in Gullah dialect without change either of meaning or of pronunciation.
Academic text (1992) -
The author has chosen to tell this story using a dialect, rather than standard written English.
Fiction book (2000) -
OK, you all have to stop being British actors with American dialect and you have to start being American.
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Hardy wants to use really old dialect words when he can.
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It's a word in an African dialect meaning "thief."
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Yeah, but even in the north, the Venetian dialect is so crazy.
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The chief says he has not understood the dialect you're using.
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The assets here spoke an archaic-sounding dialect that was sometimes hard to follow.
Fiction book (2000) -
When we realized we didn't speak the same dialect, I mimed my question until he laughed and understood.
Fiction book (1997) -
The author has chosen to tell this story using a dialect, rather than standard written English.
Synonyms
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6.8
The everyday language that ordinary people in a particular place speak
3
9.9
A way of speaking that people in a place or group use, different from the standard language
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7.4
A way of speaking used by people in one area
Compounds
A variety of Chinese spoken in Beijing that forms the basis of Standard Mandarin
A kind of Chinese spoken in Guangdong, Hong Kong and many overseas Chinese communities
- Specialized
A collection of maps showing where different words and pronunciations are used
- Specialized
A form of Ancient Greek that people once spoke in Thessaly, Boeotia, and Aeolis
- Specialized
A form of the Tocharian language no longer spoken in Kucha and Turpan in Central Asia
The main form of Chinese spoken in Beijing and used as China's official language
- Specialized
A group of Chinese languages spoken mainly in Fujian province and nearby parts of southeast China
- Specialized
A northern form of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and parts of Kosovo
A form of Chinese that Hakka people speak in southeast China and many other countries
- Specialized
An old form of Greek used in coastal western Turkey and later in Athens
A variety of Albanian spoken mainly in southern Albania and nearby parts of Greece and Italy
- Specialized
A form of Chinese spoken in the area around the Yangtze River, including Shanghai
How Different
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dialect comes from the old Greek word dialektos, which means 'way of speaking' and is related to dialogue ('conversation'). So a dialect is a certain way people in a place speak.