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Dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos ) is used in two distinct ways, even by scholars of language. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is characteristic of a par...
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Definition of dialect from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... dialect atlas (noun)
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Welcome to the American Dialect homepage, an effort to bridge the gap between the scholarly and literary worlds of dialectology. ... The American Dialect Homepage Regional Varieties of English in the United States of America and Canada...
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A dialect is any variety of a language spoken by a group of people that is characterized by systematic differences from other varieties of the same language.
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Dialect regions of the United States ... Map 1 shows four major dialect regions: the Inland North, the South, the West, and the Midland. The first three show a relatively uniform development of the three major sound shifts of American English, each moving in different directions.
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