Concept

Dialect

Overview

geographically- or socially-determined language variety

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Dialect

• Jews

Related ideas

• Ethnicity
• French language
• Cantonese
• German language
• Greek language
• Grammar
• Hong Kong
• Italy
• Indonesia
• National language
• Iran
• South Africa
• Lebanon
• Levant
• Language family
• Middle Ages
• Macau
• National identity
• Mandarin Chinese
• Dutch language
• Russian Empire
• Norwegian language
• North Africa
• Tuscany

Opposing perspectives

• German language
• Ethnicity
• Ancient Greek
• Syntax
• Social class
• Vernacular
• Oxford University Press
• Culture of Germany
• Idiolect

Place in the tradition

Part of Language.

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