English-Czech translations for dialect

• nářečí
  Úroveň angličtiny v některých navrhovaných právních předpisech mě nejprve přivedla k domněnce, že byly původně napsány v jihoalbánském nářečí. The standard of English in some proposed legislation led me at first to the conclusion that it had originated in a southern dialect of Albanian.
• dialekt
  Dnes hovoříme 23 jazyky a dalšími více než 60 dialekty v regionech nebo ve skupinách. Today we speak 23 languages and a further 60 plus dialects in regions or in groups.

Definition of dialect

• A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon
• Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong
• A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region
• A lect as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'trueform of the language (for example, Cantonese as contrasted with Mandarin Chinese, or Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German
• A variant of a non-standardized programming language
• A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population

Examples

• Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC

Related words

• dialectal
• dialectic
• dialectics
• dialectical
• dialectically
• dialectologist
• dialectology
• subdialect
• dialectally