Plural of dialect

Forms of dialect

Dialects in a sentence

• Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala.2007 February 5, Roger Blench, “The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities”, in rogerblench.info, archived from...
• Bloomfield, for example, noted that “local dialects are spoken by the peasants and the poorest people of the towns” (1933: 50) though he also thought that the lower middle class spoke 'sub-standard' speech.2010, Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren, editors, Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives (Handbook of Pragmatics...
• The vowel of lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England.From the entry back
• The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects.From the entry front
• The verb can is defective in most English dialects, as it lacks an infinitive.From the entry defective verb

Meaning of dialect

1. noun 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).
2. noun 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.
3. noun Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.

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Questions about the plural of dialect

What is the plural of dialect?

The plural of dialect is dialects.

Is dialect countable?

Dialect is a countable noun.