dialect
noun[CorU]
languageuk/ˈdaɪ.ə.lekt/us/ˈdaɪ.ə.lekt/C2
aformof alanguagethatpeoplespeakin aparticularpartof acountry,containingsome different words andgrammar, etc.:
方言,土语,地方话aregionaldialect地区方言
Thepoemis writteninnortherndialect.这首诗是用北方方言写成的。
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accentnoun
idiolect
sociolectspecialized
Ways of speaking
- accented
- accentuation
- bray
- cacoepy
- cut glass
- dialectal
- drawl
- elocution
- enunciate
- flap
- fluent
- jawbreaker
- plummy
- pragmatics
- pronunciation
- prosodic
- prosody
- signer
- sociolect
- toned
Grammar
Dialect
A dialect is a form of the language that is spoken in a particular part of the country or by a particular group of people. There are many different dialects of English and they have different words and grammar. Most learners of English learn the standard dialects of the language.…