A dialect is a variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. This may include dominant and standardized varieties as well as vernacular...

and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the Beijing dialect (or are only partially intelligible). Nevertheless, Mandarin as a group...

the northeast of the empire and gradually replaced the former Iranian dialects of Parthia (Parthian). Tajik Persian (форси́и тоҷикӣ́, forsi-i tojikī)...

such as "Nampoothiri Dialect", "Mappila Dialect", and "Nasrani Dialect" refer to overall patterns constituted by the sub-dialects spoken by the subcastes...

is a West Central German group of dialects of the German language in the central German state of Hesse. The dialect most similar to Hessian is Palatinate...

(Pemba) dialects occupy the bulk of the island. Mambrui, Malindi Chichifundi, a dialect of the southern Kenya coast. Chwaka Kivumba, a dialect of the southern...

Some include Catalan as a dialect of Occitan, as the linguistic distance between this language and some Occitan dialects (such as the Gascon language)...

and elsewhere across the world. Mutual intelligibility between Hokkien dialects varies, but they are still held together by ethnolinguistic identity. In...

dialects: the local dialects, the dialects of time, and of profession (work jargon). Of local dialects he highlights five main dialects: the dialect of...

accents and dialects are found throughout England, and people are often very proud of their local accent or dialect. However, accents and dialects also highlight...

Yola, more commonly and historically the Forth and Bargy dialect, is an extinct dialect of the Middle English language once spoken in the baronies of Forth...

Savonian dialects or North Karelian dialects Kainuu dialects Central Finland dialects Päijänne Tavastia dialects Keuruu-Evijärvi dialects Savonian dialects of...

Sarmiento that speaks the Patagonian dialect. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the predominantly Dutch...

A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually...

Yorkshire Dialect Society and the East Riding Dialect Society exist to promote the survival of the more traditional features. The dialects have been represented...

the centuries, being replaced in other areas by Alemannic and Bavarian dialects. The earliest writing identified as Romansh dates from the 10th or 11th...

Eye dialect is a writer's use of deliberately nonstandard spelling either because they do not consider the standard spelling a good reflection of the...

distinguishing a language from a dialect, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about whether Scots is a dialect of English or a separate language...

Kho'ini (alternatives: Xoini, Xo'ini, Khoeini, or Di) is a Tatic dialect or language spoken in northwestern Iran, and is one of many Western Iranian languages...

linguistic definition Fuzhou is a language and not a dialect (conferring the variety a 'dialect' status is more socio-politically motivated than linguistic)...

Danish East Danish Swedish Göta dialects Gotland dialects Svealand dialects Norrland dialects East Swedish dialects Finland Swedish Estonian Swedish...

The variants of Romagnol form a dialect continuum with their neighbouring varieties, while the more distant dialects might be less mutually intelligible...

dialect Dabu dialect Fengshun dialect Hailu dialect Sixian dialect Raoping dialect Zhaoan dialect Changting dialect Ethnologue reports the dialects of...

The American Dialect Society's Word of the Year (WotY) are voted at the January American Dialect Society conference. The first year for which the word...

The Kansai dialect (関西弁・関西方言, Kansai-ben, Kansai hōgen, Japanese pronunciation: [kaɰ̃.sai.beɴ, kaɰ̃.sai hoː.ɡeꜜɴ, -ŋeꜜɴ, kaɰ̃.sai hoꜜː.ɡeɴ, -ŋeɴ]) is...

estimated that the Kumam dialect has 82 percent lexical similarity with the Acholi dialect, 81 percent with the Lango dialect. Fricatives occur only in...

(Johnny Vegas). Problems playing this file? See media help. The Lancashire dialect (or colloquially, Lanky) refers to the Northern English vernacular speech...

evolved into iṅkū in the Kongu dialect of Coimbatore, inga in the dialects of Thanjavur and Palakkad, and iṅkai in some dialects of Sri Lanka. Old Tamil's...

Scanian (Swedish: skånska [ˈskɔ̂nːska] ) is an East Scandinavian dialect spoken in the province of Scania in southern Sweden. Broadly speaking, Scanian...

following Indo-Aryan dialects: Rangri dialect (Malvi) (rāngaṛī), a dialect of Malvi spoken in Madhya Pradesh, India Rangri dialect (Haryanvi), another...