Idiolectnoun
(linguistics) The language variant used by a specific individual.
Dialectnoun
(linguistics) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or group, often differing from other varieties of the same language in minor ways as regards vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.
Idiolectnoun
the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life.
Dialectnoun
(pejorative) Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
Idiolectnoun
the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life
Dialectnoun
A language (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized variety that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Cantonese as contrasted with Mandarin Chinese, or Bavarian as contrasted with German).
Idiolect
Idiolect is an individual's unique use of language, including speech. This unique usage encompasses vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
Dialectnoun
A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
‘Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.’;
Dialectnoun
(ornithology) A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
Dialectnoun
Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
‘This book is writ in such a dialectAs may the minds of listless men affect.Bunyan.The universal dialect of the world.’;
Dialectnoun
The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
‘In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language.’; ‘[Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect.’;
Dialectnoun
the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people;
‘the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English’; ‘he has a strong German accent’;
Dialectnoun
a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group
‘the Lancashire dialect seemed like a foreign language’;
Dialectnoun
a particular version of a programming language.
Dialect
The term dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos, from the Ancient Greek word διάλεκτος, diálektos 'discourse', from διά, diá 'through' and λέγω, légō 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena: a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. Under this definition, the dialects or varieties of a particular language are closely related and are often mutually intelligible, especially if close to one another on the dialect continuum.
