Definitions
the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Word origin
From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγω (légō, “to speak”); by surface analysis, dia- + -lect.
Used in a sentence
“Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala.”
“Bloomfield, for example, noted that “local dialects are spoken by the peasants and the poorest people of the towns” (1933: 50) though he also thought that the lower middle class spoke 'sub-standard' speech.”
“And in addition, many dialects of English make no morphological distinction between Adjectives and Adverbs, and thus use Adjectives in contexts where the standard language requires -ly Adverbs”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Regional speech variety”7 letters
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