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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
- The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English.
- This [India] is a country with seventeen languages and 22,000 dialects...Fareed Zakaria -- The Post-American World
- addressing him in every dialectEdward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country
- The girl who looked at me said something in a dialect I could not understand a word of.Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- I tried to speak Mandingo with him, but he only knew a little, and only the northern dialect.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- I am myself a student of Indian dialects;George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
- 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
- She spoke Mandarin slightly blurred with a Shanghai dialect.Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
- In this book a number of dialects are used,Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- the ordinary "Pike County" dialectMark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialectMark 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
dialect = regional variety of a language
dialect = a regional variety of a language
dialect = a regional variety of a language
dialect = a regional variety of a language
dialects = regional varieties of a language
dialects = regional varieties of a language
dialect = a regional variety of a language
dialects = regional varieties of a language