A dialect is a variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. It can also refer to a language subordinate in status to a dominant language...
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Mandarin Chinese (redirect from Mandarin dialects)
and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the Beijing dialect (or are only partially intelligible). Nevertheless, Mandarin as a group...
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Swahili language (redirect from Lamu dialect)
(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...
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North Germanic languages (redirect from North Germanic dialect)
Danish East Danish Swedish Göta dialects Gotland dialects Svealand dialects Norrland dialects East Swedish dialects Finland Swedish Estonian Swedish...
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Hokkien (redirect from Hokkien (dialect))
and elsewhere across the world. Mutual intelligibility between Hokkien dialects varies, but they are still held together by ethnolinguistic identity. In...
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Portuguese language (redirect from Beirão dialect)
dialects: the local dialects, the dialects of time, and of profession (work jargon). Of local dialects he highlights five main dialects: the dialect of...
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A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually...
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Afrikaans (redirect from Afrikaans (Northern Cape dialect))
Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the predominantly Dutch settlers and enslaved population of...
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Vernacular (redirect from Nonstandard dialect)
vernacular dialect, nonstandard dialect, etc. and is typically its speakers' native variety. Regardless of any such stigma, all nonstandard dialects are full-fledged...
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Dialects are linguistic varieties that may differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, and other aspects of grammar. For the classification of varieties...
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