Definition of dialect

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Dialect (n.) The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned..

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Romance :: Romance (a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
Dialect :: Dialect (n.) Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
Ladin :: Ladin (n.) A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol.
Manx :: Manx (n.) The language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, a dialect of the Celtic..
Dialector :: Dialector (n.) One skilled in dialectics.
Zend :: Zend (n.) Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written..
Pehlevi :: Pehlevi (n.) An ancient Persian dialect in which words were partly represented by their Semitic equivalents. It was in use from the 3d century (and perhaps earlier) to the middle of the 7th century, and later in religious writings..
Rabbinic :: Rabbinic (n.) The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.
Dialectic :: Dialectic (n.) Same as Dialectics.
Langue D''oc :: Langue d'oc () The dialect, closely akin to French, formerly spoken south of the Loire (in which the word for yes was oc); Provencal..
Romance :: Romance (n.) The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages)..
Chaldaic :: Chaldaic (n.) The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; Chaldee.
Doric :: Doric (n.) The Doric dialect.
Ionic :: Ionic (n.) The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic..
Friesic :: Friesic (n.) The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark..
Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect..
Idiom :: Idiom (n.) Dialect; a variant form of a language.
Cornish :: Cornish (n.) The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall..
Dialectology :: Dialectology (n.) That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.
Dialectal :: Dialectal (a.) Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant..
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