Dialect
A dialect (of the Greek dialegomai " to speak ensemble") is a variety of a Langue which are distinguished from the other dialects of this same language by a certain number of lexical characteristics , syntactic or Phonétique S, and which is used by a more restricted fraction of the population, while remaining comprehensible by all the speakers of the language. Any language has dialects, without exception.
One generally distinguishes two types of dialects:
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dialects local (or geographical; one also speaks about Géolecte), which is studied by the Dialectologie. These dialects can coexist on the same plan (it is the case of the United States: each area speaks a little different English, no alternative is supposed preferable being with the others), or being regarded as lower than a standard Langue
- the social dialects (or Sociolecte S ), studied in particular by the Sociolinguistique.
To the point of view of the Linguistic , one does not oppose a dialect to a Langue . To qualify a way of speaking about the term of dialect is in general a devaluing appreciation (as to speak about Patois) but is not to in no case rigorous linguistically speaking.
To be more precise, all average linguistics used continuously by several people to communicate is a language. No language in oneself is adapted more to the modern world than another. For example the Hebrew was a dead language used only in the liturgy before being recreated and enriched at the beginning of the XXè century in Europe.
Nds-nl: Dialekt Simple: Dialect Zh-yue: 方言
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