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dialect Noun

— A dialect is a version of a language. People who speak different dialects might sound different or word meanings might be a little different. People speaking different dialects talk similar enough that they can understand each other. (If people cannot understand each other, they speak different languages, not different dialects.) The dialect of the southern United Stage is quite different from that of the north.

dialect

— noun (= accent) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English he has a strong German accent it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy

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dialect English » English

language accent patois vernacular speech slang idiom pronunciation lingo way of talking way of speaking register regional speech localism ideolect gnaw words vernacularism variety variant utterance tune tongue tone talk spoken language speeh speech pattern sound say regional variation in pronunciation provincialism pooch phraseology parlance native tongue manner of speech locution linguistic group lect jargon foreign language dialectic dialectal colloquialism colloquial language cant brogue argot

Topics dialect topics

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Language

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dialect foreign language accent pidgin slang colloquial

Examples dialect examples

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Simple sentences

Tom always makes fun of John because of his dialect.

It's hard to understand the Osaka dialect.

A language is a dialect with an army and navy.

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

South Guelderish is a dialect of Dutch spoken in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

A dialect is a specific form of a language, spoken in a certain region.

Have I asked you whether you can speak Zhenjiang dialect?

A language is just a dialect with an army and a navy.

What dialect is this?

What dialect is that?

What dialect are you speaking?

You should avoid adding sentences in a language other than your own, because unless you write in your mother tongue or dialect, you are prone to make many mistakes.

I love my Italian dialect.

Chinese is divided into ten major dialect groups.

What is a dialect?

A language is a dialect with a radio station.

Movie subtitles

YOUR DIALECT IS PERFECT.

I can't get their dialect.

Oh, how I miss speaking my Tokyo dialect.

Still speaking in Osaka dialect, eh?

It's Bergamo dialect. My poor father was from there too.

Oh, we don't need him. I happen to know this dialect.

An obscure Earth dialect, Mr. Spock.

Must be a Galactic 5 dialect.

Old English, Middle, a dialect, pure.

I learned classical Spanish, not the strange dialect he seems to have picked up.

What do you think of my Savonian dialect by the way?

The dialect.

The, uh, dialect.

Sir, I don't know where your ship learned to communicate, but it has the most peculiar dialect.

Try another dialect.

Your dialect is perfect.

I don't know. I can't get their dialect.

You better use a different dialect this time.

I declare, for a Texan, you all have a mighty funny dialect, colonel.

You're still speaking in that Osaka dialect.

MAYBE HE'S GOT A DIALECT, HUH?

Dialect.

You trade the dialect of Turin for that of Naples. that's all.

It's Aomori dialect.

That must be a galactic five dialect.

What's important is the dialect, the intonation.

And learn the Manta dialect.

I happen to know this dialect.

In Osaka dialect, feeling 'ahorashi' means you're barely hanging on.

None. -Excuse me, the Arabic that you're speaking is a rural dialect?

He only speaks his dialect.

You only speak your dialect.

There are some men in frontof our house, and they're speaking in Kobe dialect.

Sir, I don't know where your ship learned to communicate. but it has the most peculiar dialect.

A charming dialect!

News and current affairs

Mr. Greenspan was a strong believer, in practice if not in theory - for who could understand his theory? - that central bankers should speak in an opaque and convoluted dialect.

Zaia's vivid imagination does not stop there: he has now proposed that popular Italian TV series be dubbed or subtitled in the local dialect!

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