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Definition

a regional variety of a language

It's not uncommon to hear "y'all" when talking in the American south where the rural areas still have a distinct dialect.

dialect = a regional variety of a language

dialect = regional variety of a language

This [India] is a country with seventeen languages and 22,000 dialects...
Fareed Zakaria -- The Post-American World
addressing him in every dialect
Edward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country

dialect = a regional variety of a language

The girl who looked at me said something in a dialect I could not understand a word of.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms

dialect = a regional variety of a language

I tried to speak Mandingo with him, but he only knew a little, and only the northern dialect.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad

dialect = a regional variety of a language

dialects = regional varieties of a language

They ... amazed the students with their vast knowledge of not only French, but also English, Swahili, and several African dialects.
Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger

dialects = regional varieties of a language

She spoke Mandarin slightly blurred with a Shanghai dialect.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

dialect = a regional variety of a language

In this book a number of dialects are used,
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

dialects = regional varieties of a language

the ordinary "Pike County" dialect
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
I also refused to stay at home when Char traveled, and learned every language and dialect that came our way.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.
George Orwell -- Politics and the English Language
I could not understand any of the dialects the interviewer at China Airlines tried on me, and he didn't understand me either.
Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Woman Warrior
MRS WARREN [lapsing recklessly into her dialect] We're mother and daughter.
George Bernard Shaw -- Mrs. Warren's Profession
In some dialects: Chaumas.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
, though it is doubtful whether they belonged at all to any Indian dialect, are much used by both white and red men in their Intercourse.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
Tristero's giving its employees crash courses in Siouan and Athapascan dialects.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
"Noble Ghael," said Missandei, in the dialect of Astapor, "is this the same Cleon once owned by Grazdan mo Ullhor?"
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords

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