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dialect

Sociology A sublanguage system spoken in a region or by a particular group of people. See Ebonics. Cf Jargon, Slang.

di·a·lect

(dī'ă-lekt)

The aggregate of generally local shifts in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary from a perceived less localized standard.

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The scholars put forward several proposals for working on different aspects of Pashto script on scientific lines so that the speakers of different dialects could use a standard script effectively for various academic and non-academic purposes.

Speakers call for evolving standard script from all Pashto dialects

The project's most challenging aspect was to maintain the author's style while adapting it for a local audience in a dialect that has no clear written form.

Presenting the Little Prince in the Cypriot dialect

As part of a two-year Lost Dialects initiative, visitors to The Word, National Centre for the Written Word, at South Shields, were invited to jot down words and phrases they rarely heard anymore.

Divvent fret, gadgies, wor Geordie heritage is safe

Artist Robert Good at the Word Bank for Lost Dialects exhibition at The Word in South Shields

How gadgies, gannies and sprouters are helping save rare North East words from extinction; Exhibition in South Shields features 2,400 words and phrases which members of the public came up with

Barnes's dialect poems, I suggest, assert the dynamism and legitimacy of a community defined by the sounds of its speech--of, that is, an aural community--and this assertion emerges precisely in representation of emotional experience as it connects to acts of listening.

Aural Community and William Barnes as Earwitness

Dr Rees believes dialect areas are actually becoming less rigid, due to modern patterns like relocating for work or family reasons.

The varied map of our dialects..

"I have wanted to promote my dad's work but dialect hasn't been fashionable," she said.

Celebrating a pair of Yorkshire dialect legends; TWO WRITERS WHO CHAMPIONED LOCAL DIALECTS ARE TO BE REMEMBERED AT A SPECIAL EVENT

'To ensure that our dialects do not die, we need to encourage our children to speak the dialects.

Let's revive our dying cultural heritage, Mrs Amosun charges students

"I think conflict, migration and relocation definitely has an effect on language and dialect. People who are forced to leave their country focus on communication with people in that society and therefore alter their dialect or learn a new language to fit in.

Residents weigh in on language

I recently read a booklet regarding Pembrokeshire's dialect by Menter Iaith Sir Benfro.

Western Mail letters: Friday, March 23, 2018; Your letters to the national newspaper of Wales

I am a proud Brummie and my own distinctive dialect is very much part of who I am.

Dialects are big part of our wonderful heritage

As someone who speaks Welsh with a clear influence from Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, I would like to see primary schools learning the spoken dialect relevant to their area.

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