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dialect
noun as in local speech
Example Sentences
All the enlightened reformers in Europe were desperately trying to eliminate the peasant peculiarities and plebeian dialects that divided the peoples of their nations.
Morgan liked hip-hop, but she thought of it as a performance, not a speech community—a common language or dialect shared by a group of people.
They speak an antiquated dialect of the same language, which the agents, who are also Yine, have been able to learn.
Nǀuu is part of the Tuu language family originally spoken in South Africa and Botswana, many dialects of which are already extinct, said Pan South African Language Board representative Bradley van Sitters.
Because she had grown up speaking French, Arabic, and her parents' Sicilian dialect, her accent was seen as unacceptable, and her voice was dubbed by other Italian actors.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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