How do you use Dialect in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like idiom or accent, plus the exact meaning.
Dialect in a sentence
Related words
Dialect meaning
- A lect (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 idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).
- A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.
- Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
Using Dialect
- The main meaning on this page is: A lect (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 idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German). | A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon. | Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
- Useful related words include: idiom, accent, non-standard speech.
- In the example corpus, dialect often appears in combinations such as: dialect of, the dialect, dialect and.
Context around Dialect
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 12 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dialect
- In this selection, "dialect" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, alta, tosk, yorkshire, words, cluster and especially stand out and add context to how "dialect" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a base dialect for the and a dialect cluster of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dialect" sits close to words such as astronomers, booths and chanting, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dialect
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That's the point; Yorkshire dialect, especially archaic, obscure dialect words, can sound like gibberish. (15 words)
In addition, neither dialect is completely homogeneous: any dialect can be subdivided into several subdialects. (15 words)
A dialect cluster of Nǃaqriaxe, (Eastern) ǂHoan, and Sasi) ** ǃKung (also ǃXun or Ju, formerly Northern Khoisan) is a dialect cluster. (21 words)
Karadeniz, spoken in the Eastern Black Sea Region and represented primarily by the Trabzon dialect, exhibits substratum influence from Greek in phonology and syntax ; citation it is also known as Laz dialect (not to be confused with the Laz language ). (40 words)
His grammar sketch of the Milpa Alta dialect of Nahuatl was not published during his lifetime, but it was published posthumously by Harry Hoijer The Milpa Alta dialect of Aztec (with notes on the Classical and the Tepoztlan dialects). (39 words)
In Mandarin, the multiplier 兩 (liǎng) is often used rather than 二 (èr) for all numbers 200 and greater with the "2" numeral (although as noted earlier this varies from dialect to dialect and person to person). (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
That's the point; Yorkshire dialect, especially archaic, obscure dialect words, can sound like gibberish.
A dialect cluster of Nǃaqriaxe, (Eastern) ǂHoan, and Sasi) ** ǃKung (also ǃXun or Ju, formerly Northern Khoisan) is a dialect cluster.
At that time, every ethnographic subgroup in the Macedonian-Bulgarian linguistic area wrote in their own local dialect and choosing a "base dialect" for the new standard was not an issue.
Cases may also arise in which a speaker of dialect X can understand a speaker of dialect Y, but not vice versa; the mutual intelligibility criterion flounders here as well.
Dialects of the Kansai region are spoken or known by many Japanese, and Osaka dialect in particular is associated with comedy (see Kansai dialect ).
His grammar sketch of the Milpa Alta dialect of Nahuatl was not published during his lifetime, but it was published posthumously by Harry Hoijer The Milpa Alta dialect of Aztec (with notes on the Classical and the Tepoztlan dialects).
However, Amesbury in Wiltshire is in a different dialect region and does not easily fit into the pattern of the Midland dialect place names.
However, while his poetry features some Aeolisms there are no words that are certainly Boeotian—he composed in the main literary dialect of the time (Homer's dialect): Ionian.
In addition, neither dialect is completely homogeneous: any dialect can be subdivided into several subdialects.
In Mandarin, the multiplier 兩 (liǎng) is often used rather than 二 (èr) for all numbers 200 and greater with the "2" numeral (although as noted earlier this varies from dialect to dialect and person to person).
In order to solve the Gheg Tosk divide, books were written in the Tosk dialect, and the majority of the Party's members came from southern Albania where the Tosk dialect is spoken.
In other cases, tone may arise spontaneously and surprisingly quickly: the dialect of Cherokee in Oklahoma has tone, but the dialect in North Carolina does not although they were separated only in 1838.
In the men's dialect, the classes for men and for masculine things have simplified to a single class, marked the same way as the women's dialect marker reserved exclusively for men.
It did them no harm." citation citation Dialect usage Mrs Gaskell's style is notable for putting local dialect words into the mouths of middle-class characters and the narrator.
Karadeniz, spoken in the Eastern Black Sea Region and represented primarily by the Trabzon dialect, exhibits substratum influence from Greek in phonology and syntax ; citation it is also known as Laz dialect (not to be confused with the Laz language ).
Many readers objected to the representation of African-American dialect in Hurston's novels, given the racially charged history of dialect fiction in American literature.
One interviewer reported that Dunbar told him, "I am tired, so tired of dialect", though he is also quoted as saying, "my natural speech is dialect" and "my love is for the Negro pieces".
There is no precise linguistic border between one dialect and another because there is nearly always a dialect transition zone of some size between pairs of geographically identified dialects.
The Torlakian dialect is often added to the list, though sources usually note that it is a transitional dialect between Shtokavian and the Bulgaro-Macedonian dialects.
This has led to its de facto status as the official "Greenlandic" language, although the northern dialect Inuktun remains spoken by 1,000 or so people around Qaanaaq and the eastern dialect Tunumiisut by around 3000.
Common combinations with dialect
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- dialect of 22×
- the dialect 18×
- dialect and 15×
- of dialect 14×
- local dialect 13×
- dialect is 9×
- dialect in 7×
- and dialect 5×
- in dialect 5×
- dialect to 4×