rural dialect
Rustic regional tongue
A rural dialect is a variety of language associated with countryside regions, typically distinguished from urban or standard speech by distinctive vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar.
Rural dialects often preserve older linguistic features that have disappeared from mainstream usage: Her grandmother still spoke in the rural dialect of the Ozarks.
The term sometimes carries condescending overtones, implying provincialism or lack of education.
- hollerLoud vocal outburst
- accentRegional speech pattern
- Cajun FrenchAcadian-descended Louisiana language
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- country twangRural American vocal quality
diglossia · oral history · dying language · Gullah · patois · regional slang · drawl · language preservation · colloquialism · hick · intonation · speech patterns · tradition · local color · folksy · down home · farm country · back roads
rural dialectstandard language
Codified, official linguistic form
Queen's English · High German · official language · BBC English