Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 26 compound words that contain dialect. The most common are listed below. Open dialect in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- dialect continuumA range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.
- Kansai dialectA group of Japanese dialects in the Kansai region (Kinki region) of Japan.
- standard dialectSynonym of standard language: A form of a language that is institutionally promoted, regarded as the most correct or neutral variety, and is used by a population for public and formal purposes.
- dialect levellingthe reduction of dialectal diversity within a language due to the propagation of a single prestige variety
- eye dialectNonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.
- dialect chainSynonym of dialect continuum: A range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.
- vernacular dialectSynonym of nonstandard dialect: Any spoken variety of a language that deviates from the socially dominant or prestigious dialect.
- dialect continuaplural of dialect continuum: A range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.
- nonstandard dialectAny spoken variety of a language that deviates from the socially dominant or prestigious dialect.
- Urtsun dialectThe dialect of the Kalasha-speaking people in the Urtsun valley in Chitral, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
- dialect chainsplural of dialect chain: A range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.
- dialect islandAn enclave where a dialect is physically isolated from similar dialects.
- dialect islandsplural of dialect island: An enclave where a dialect is physically isolated from similar dialects.
- dialect continuumsplural of dialect continuum: A range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.
Compound words 26
- dialecticAny formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
- dialecticalOf or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.
- regiolectA lect spoken in a particular geographical region.
- grapholectA written variant of a language, analogous to a spoken dialect of a language.
- dialecticismThe quality of being dialectic.
- dialectismAlternative form of dialecticism: The quality of being dialectic.
- interdialectA language variety that combines features of two or more dialects.
- microdialectA unique dialect, language system, or jargon used in a very small geographical region or by a very small number of individuals, like a couple, family, or community; marked by shared, private words, phrases, and grammatical quirks.
- regionalectA dialect spoken in a particular geographical region.
- dialectisedsplit into dialects