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dialecte

Pronunciation: /dja.lɛkt/

“dialecte” is a French word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. language socially subordinate to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard, but not a variety of it or in any other sense derived from it
  2. dialect

In French

  1. Proche parent d’une langue dominante ou officielle mais qui s’en distingue et qui, avec cette langue dominante, étaient autrefois variétés régionales l’une de l’autre.
  2. Variété particulière d’une langue.
  3. patois (péjoratif): Dénomme un dialecte au premier sens ou bien toute langue d’un pays qui n’est pas officielle
  4. variété, variante, régiolecte

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος (diálektos).

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