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dialect
noun as in local speech
Example Sentences
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.
He was a cultural icon in Assam, singing in more than 40 languages and dialects in a career spanning 33 years.
Each carried its own dialect, each one another lesson.
Jones also had to swap her British accent out for a thick, distinctive Delco accent, as the dialect spoken by those from Delaware County is affectionately called.
She has to know the city, its peoples, dialects, and languages.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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