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- Dialect - n. - Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
- Dialect - n. - The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
- Dialectal - a. - Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.
- Dialectic - n. - Same as Dialectics.
- Dialectic - a. - Alt. of Dialectical
- Dialectical - a. - Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.
- Dialectical - a. - Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects.
- Dialectically - adv. - In a dialectical manner.
- Dialectician - n. - One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.
- Dialectics - n. - That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.
- Dialectology - n. - That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.
- Dialector - n. - One skilled in dialectics.
- Erse - n. - A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic.
- Rabbinic - n. - The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.
- Chaldee - n. - The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic, or the Aramaic used in Chaldea.
- Scotch - n. - The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.
- Transdialect - v. t. - To change or translate from one dialect into another.
- Dialect - n. - The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
- Patois - n. - A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.
- Parsee - n. - The Iranian dialect of much of the religious literature of the Parsees.
- Chaldaic - n. - The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; Chaldee.
- Dialectical - a. - Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects.
- Sanskrit - n. - The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda.
- Ladin - n. - A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol.
- Pehlevi - n. - An ancient Persian dialect in which words were partly represented by their Semitic equivalents. It was in use from the 3d century (and perhaps earlier) to the middle of the 7th century, and later in religious writings.
- Pali - n. - A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.
- Langue d'oil - - The dialect formerly spoken north of the Loire (in which the word for "yes" was oil, F. oui).
- Armorican - n. - The language of the Armoricans, a Celtic dialect which has remained to the present times.
- Flemish - n. - The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.
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