• Dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos, from the Ancient Greek word διάλεκτος, diálektos 'discourse', from διά, diá 'through' and λέγω, légō 'I speak')...
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    Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the...
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    (Pemba) dialects occupy the bulk of the island. Mambrui, Malindi Chichifundi, a dialect of the southern Kenya coast. Chwaka Kivumba, a dialect of the southern...
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    linguistic definition Fuzhou is a language and not a dialect (conferring the variety a 'dialect' status is more socio-politically motivated than linguistic)...
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    South Swedish dialects Scanian Göta dialects Gotland dialects Svealand dialects Norrland dialects Jämtland dialects East Swedish dialects Finland Swedish...
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  • Dialects are linguistic varieties that may differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, and other aspects of grammar. For the classification of varieties...
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    Hokkien (redirect from Hokkien (dialect))
    Vietnam elsewhere across the world. Mutual intelligibility between Hokkien dialects varies, but they are still held together by ethnolinguistic identity. In...
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    dialects: the local dialects, the dialects of time, and of profession (work jargon). Of local dialects he highlights five main dialects: the dialect of...
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    Hakka Chinese (redirect from Hakka dialect)
    Jiaoling dialect Dabu dialect Fengshun dialect Hailu dialect Sixian dialect Raoping dialect (a.k.a. Shangrao) Zhaoan dialect Changting dialect Ethnologue...
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    Yorkshire dialect (also known as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke, Yorkie, or Yorkshire English) is a dialect of English, or a geographic grouping of several dialects, spoken...
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