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Adialect It is a variant or regional modality that acquires a language that is spoken in large geographic areas, without affecting the unity of the system. Thus considered, dialects are diatopic varieties of language. For example: Andalusian.
In common speech, the word dialect often refers to a language spoken and understood by a minority, or to a native, unwritten language, without sociocultural prestige.
He speaks of Marseilles, for example, it is a variant of French that is very different from that of Paris and is not better or worse for that. However, Marseille French is generally considered a dialect, not the Parisian variant, often considered standard French.
Other linguists have defined the word dialect as the language modality used by a group of speakers smaller than the one who speaks the considered main language, or as that linguistic structure simultaneous to another that does not reach the category of language.
See also:
- Dialect varieties
- Localisms
Examples of dialects
Here are a number of examples of dialects derived from other languages:
- Aragonese (Spanish)
- Rioplatense (Spanish)
- Andalusian (Spanish)
- Extremeño (Spanish)
- Piedmontese (Italian)
- Murciano (Spanish)
- Fukian (Chinese)
- Limeño (Spanish)
- Taiwanese (Chinese)
- Mandarin (Chinese)
- Tuscan (Italian)
- Alemannisch (German)
- Bayrisch (German)
- Schwäbisch (German)
- Schwizerdütsch (German)
- Sächsisch (German)
- Flemish (Dutch)
- Cajun (French)
- Ionian (Greek)
- Scouse (British English)
Dialect characteristics
- A dialect should not exhibit so much differentiation as to be considered a different language from the one from which it is derived, at least structurally.
- Rather, the dialect plays the role of a multicultural element, arising from the interactions between ethnic groups that are linked to each other and, logically, need to communicate.
- Surely all languages had their origin in the intersection of different dialects.Survival may have been the result of chance, as well as massiveness or practical convenience. Languages lost the status of dialects when they were adopted as ‘official’ languages and began to have an important written tradition and a specific grammar that regulates it.
- The denomination of "dialect" is used in some cases with a certain pejorative charge, as indicated in the case of Marseille. This sometimes happens with pre-colonial communication structures, which from the point of view of the colonizer are reduced to dialects, although they may have functioned as formal languages at the time.
