local dialect
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈloʊkəl ˈdaɪəˌlɛkt/
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dialecto local
- Students can choose which local dialect to learn.
Examples
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Students can choose which local dialect to learn based on their interests.
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They quickly developed close relationships with people from the small villages around the site and even mastered the local dialects of Brauhvi and Siraiki.
Academic text (2003) -
Although 93 percent of the Chinese population is Han, hundreds of regional and local dialects exist.
Academic text (1992) -
Before focusing on the picture, focus on cultural interactions by smiling, making friends, and learning a few basic phrases in the local dialect.
Academic text (2006) -
Interviews were conducted in two local dialects, Ga and Twi.
Academic text (2005) -
In some cases, where parents were illiterate, the research assistants used the local dialects to explain the questionnaire to them and recorded their responses accordingly.
Academic text (2006) -
The death was significant because Mr. Hogg was the last speaker of a local dialect called "Comarty fisherfolk" that now only exists in a few brief audio clips.
Blog text (25) -
To fit in, he cut his hair and learned the local dialect of the town.
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An unusual feature of Smith Island is the distinct local dialect that reflects its history.
Synonyms
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A form of language used in one area or group with its own words, grammar, and sounds
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6.8
The everyday language that ordinary people in a particular place speak
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9.9
A way of speaking that people in a place or group use, different from the standard language
A way of speaking a language in one place that is different from other places
How Distinct
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the particular form of a language characteristic of a specific region or community' is directly and compositionally derived from 'local' (pertaining to a particular area) modifying 'dialect' (a distinctive language form). This simple adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary semantic combination, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Local dialect comes from the idea that a small place, the local area, has its own way of speaking. Picture a village where people use special words and sounds and that community speech is the dialect, so local dialect means the particular form of 'language' used in that 'region'.