dialect
/ˈdaɪ.əˌlɛkt/ sustantivo C1En español: dialecto
- A lect (often a regional or minority 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).
- 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.
- Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
- A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.
- A variant of a non-standardized programming language. · Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.
- A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
Plural dialects
De la biblioteca
He already knew Italian, and had also picked up a little of the Romaic dialect during voyages to the East; and by the aid of these two languages he easily comprehended the construction of all the others, so that at the end of six months he began to speak Spanish, English, and German.
So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.
“I beg your excellency’s pardon for keeping you waiting,” said the man, in the Roman dialect, “but I don’t think I’m many minutes after my time, ten o’clock has just struck by the clock of Saint John Lateran.”
“I did; but they were uttered in the Romaic dialect.
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