English-Danish translations for dialect

dialektVi taler i dag 23 sprog og over 60 dialekter i regioner og befolkningsgrupper. Today we speak 23 languages and a further 60 plus dialects in regions or in groups. Kvaliteten af det engelske sprog i nogle af lovforslagene fik mig i begyndelsen til at drage den konklusion, at det stammede fra en sydlig dialekt af det albanske sprog. 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. Der findes endda sociolekter, forskellige dialekter inden for et og samme land samt minoritetssprog, hvilket man i dag anerkender i demokratier. There are also professional jargons, different dialects in one and the same country and minority languages which are now being recognised by democracies.

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

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