Definition of dialect

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Dialect (n.) Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.

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Jargon :: "Jargon (n.) Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang..
Transdialect :: Transdialect (v. t.) To change or translate from one dialect into another.
Dialectology :: Dialectology (n.) That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.
Cornish :: Cornish (n.) The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall..
Scottish :: Scottish (a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect..
Bohemian :: Bohemian (n.) The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family..
Brogue :: Brogue (v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.
Dialectical :: Dialectical (a.) Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects.
Prakrit :: Prakrit (n.) Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects..
Pali :: Pali (n.) A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc..
Friesic :: Friesic (n.) The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark..
Dialector :: Dialector (n.) One skilled in dialectics.
Scotch :: Scotch (n.) The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.
Dialectically :: Dialectically (adv.) In a dialectical manner.
Dialectic :: Dialectic (n.) Same as Dialectics.
Romance :: Romance (n.) The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages)..
Chaldaic :: Chaldaic (n.) The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; Chaldee.
Pehlevi :: Pehlevi (n.) An ancient Persian dialect in which words were partly represented by their Semitic equivalents. It was in use from the 3d century (and perhaps earlier) to the middle of the 7th century, and later in religious writings..
Patois :: Patois (n.) A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.
Romance :: Romance (a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
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