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  1. noun A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists: Cockney is a dialect of English.
  2. noun A variety of language that with other varieties constitutes a single language of which no single variety is standard: the dialects of Ancient Greek.
  3. noun The language peculiar to the members of a group, especially in an occupation; jargon: the dialect of science.
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  • Jamie understood most of the words, even though the dialect was a little different from the Lowland Gaelic that Beak had taught her. —  Garwood, Julie - The Bride
  • The place-names in Slavic dialect were exactly those I knew from my own map—Pig-Stealing Village, Valley of Eight Oaks. —  The Historian
  • Gabbla, means hinterland, inland or distance in Arabic dialect - 40-year-old Algerian director —  Cineuropa
  • Especially Paris Kurdish Institute is well known about its studies and research on the main Kurdish dialect Kurmanji which TRT 6 uses.
  • Iraq, Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, but each country has a different dialect, in which not every person from a certain Arabic dialect understand all others, and many times a certain word means something else in another Arabic dialect. —  Qwaider Planet
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  1. French dialecte, from Old French, from Latin dialectus, form of speech, from Greek dialektos, speech, from dialegesthai, to discourse, use a dialect : dia-, between, over; see dia- + legesthai, middle voice of legein, to speak; see leg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French dialecte = Spanish Portuguese dialecto = Italian dialetto = German dialect = D. Danish Swedish dialekt, from Latin dialectos or dialectus, from Greek διάλεκτος, discourse, discussion, common language or talk, speech, way of talking, language of a country, especially the dialect of a particular district, from διαλέγεσθαι, discourse, discuss, argue, use a dialect or language, active διαλέγειν, distinguish, choose between, from διά, between, + λέγειν, choose, speak. Cf. dialogue, from the same source.
  2. from dialect, n.
 

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