A prestige dialect is the dialect that is considered most prestigious by the members of that speech community. In nearly all cases, the prestige dialect...

prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects....

covert prestige is a type of scenario in which nonstandard languages or dialects are regarded to be of high linguistic prestige by members of a speech...

of South Asia. The spoken dialects of Bengali are mutually intelligible with neighbouring dialects. Bengali dialects can be thus classified along at least...

Hokkien Campaign Languages of China Languages of Taiwan Languages of Singapore List of prestige dialects Amoy Min Nan Swadesh list Sino-Tibetan Swadesh lists...

justified in terms of social prestige include Italian dialects and languages as (L) and Standard Italian as (H) in Italy and German dialects and Standard German...

century. There are at least 18 dialects of the language. Standard Georgian is largely based on the prestige Kartlian dialect. It has over centuries wiped...

Italian dialects Japanese dialects Korean dialects Norwegian dialects Nguni languages Dialects of Polish Portuguese dialects Romanian dialects Russian...

dialects spoken by Gorals in Western Carpathians bordering Poland and Slovakia), which include: Carpathian-Podgórze Goral dialects Babia Góra dialect...

considerably from region to region. Several prestige dialects have developed around the major urban centers of Stockholm, Helsinki, Gothenburg and Malmö–Lund...