dialect : Idioms & Phrases

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aeolic dialect

  • noun the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis
    Eolic; Aeolic.
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arcadic dialect

  • noun the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken by Arcadians
    Arcadic.
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beijing dialect

  • noun the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
    Mandarin; Mandarin Chinese; Beijing dialect.
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cantonese dialect

  • noun the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
    Cantonese dialect; Yue; Cantonese.
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dialect atlas

  • noun an atlas showing the distribution of distinctive linguistic features
    linguistic atlas.
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dialect geography

  • noun the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features
    linguistic geography.
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doric dialect

  • noun the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Doris
    Doric.
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eye dialect

  • noun the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker
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flemish dialect

  • noun one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch
    Flemish.
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gheg dialect

  • noun the dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia
    Gheg.
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hakka dialect

  • noun a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka
    Hakka.
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Ionic dialect

  • noun the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
    Attic; Ionic; Classical Greek.
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  • (Gr. Gram.), a dialect of the Greek language, used in Ionia. The Homeric poems are written in what is designated old Ionic, as distinguished from new Ionic, or Attic, the dialect of all cultivated Greeks in the period of Athenian prosperity and glory.
Webster 1913

kuchean dialect

  • noun a dialect of Tocharian
    West Tocharian; Kuchean.
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mandarin dialect

  • noun the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
    Mandarin; Mandarin Chinese; Beijing dialect.
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min dialect

  • noun any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
    Min; Fukkianese; Taiwanese; Amoy; Hokkianese; Fukien.
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shanghai dialect

  • noun a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
    Wu; Shanghai dialect.
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tosk dialect

  • noun the dialect of Albanian spoken in southern Albania and in areas of Greece and Italy
    Tosk.
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turfan dialect

  • noun a dialect of Tocharian
    Turfan; East Tocharian.
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wu dialect

  • noun a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
    Wu; Shanghai dialect.
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yue dialect

  • noun the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
    Cantonese dialect; Yue; Cantonese.
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