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nonstandard dialects

nonstandard dialects is the plural of nonstandard dialect.

Meaning of nonstandard dialect

Noun

nonstandard dialect (plural nonstandard dialects)

  1. Any spoken variety of a language that deviates from the socially dominant or prestigious dialect.

Questions about nonstandard dialects

What is nonstandard dialects the plural of?
Nonstandard dialects is the plural of nonstandard dialect.

Words near nonstandard dialects in the dictionary

  1. nonstamped
  2. nonstandard
  3. nonstandard analysis
  4. nonstandard appreciable
  5. nonstandard dialect
  6. nonstandard dialects
  7. nonstandard item
  8. nonstandard items
  9. nonstandard number
  10. nonstandard numbers
  11. nonstandard unit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nonstandard dialects (page history and authors); nonstandard dialect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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