local dialect
Area's native tongue
A local dialect is a variety of language specific to a particular geographic area, distinguished by pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar from the standard language or from dialects of other regions.
The term emphasizes the regional nature of speech patterns: The local dialect uses words you won't hear anywhere else in the country.
Speakers may shift between local dialect and standard speech depending on context.
- accentRegional speech pattern
- thick accentPronounced regional inflection
- endangered languageSpeech risking complete extinction
- dying outBecoming extinct gradually
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
regionalism · sociolect · brogue · oral tradition · spoken word · patois · code-switching · archaism · idiom · slang · jargon · colloquialism · tongue · hometown · home turf · old country · regional pride · inflection
- Village Heritagefolk traditions, village square, town well, old church, stone bridge
- dialectregionalisms, vernacular, localisms, patois, provincialisms
- dialectspatois, vernaculars, vernacular, regional dialects, regional accent
- dialect mapslinguistic atlas, word map
- Lang Son
- languagesEnglish, Arabic, Chinese, German, French
local dialectstandard language
Codified, official linguistic form
official language · High German · Mandarin Chinese · Queen's English
local dialectstandard language
Codified, official linguistic form
lingua franca · global language · world language · national language · official language