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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
the promotional team for the new computer used a dialect full of acronyms that the press found difficult to follow
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Recent Examples of dialects
Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
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Jez Fielder,
Fortune,
30 June 2026
Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
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ABC News,
29 June 2026
In our day, before there was the interweb, 30 to 40 interviews a week, promoting stuff back-to-back-to-back in all dialects and languages.
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Lily Moayeri,
SPIN,
25 June 2026
It is also being distributed internationally and has been translated into French, Spanish, German and three Greenlandic dialects.
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Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
9 June 2026
Language is often a reflection of the culture that shapes it, impacting tone, idioms, dialects and even silence across regions.
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Ryan Kolln,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Sperm whales communicate using group-specific dialects orders of magnitude older than Sanskrit.
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Ryan Huling,
Time,
7 May 2026
The small cadre of community radio stations in coastal Bangladesh, using local dialects, provide an early-warning system against tsunamis, flooding, and cyclones.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
Planting seasons, river baptisms, torture, prayers, African dialects, poverty, massacres, lynchings.
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Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
Jez Fielder,
Fortune,
30 June 2026
Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
—
ABC News,
29 June 2026
In our day, before there was the interweb, 30 to 40 interviews a week, promoting stuff back-to-back-to-back in all dialects and languages.
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Lily Moayeri,
SPIN,
25 June 2026
It is also being distributed internationally and has been translated into French, Spanish, German and three Greenlandic dialects.
—
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
9 June 2026
Language is often a reflection of the culture that shapes it, impacting tone, idioms, dialects and even silence across regions.
—
Ryan Kolln,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Sperm whales communicate using group-specific dialects orders of magnitude older than Sanskrit.
—
Ryan Huling,
Time,
7 May 2026
The small cadre of community radio stations in coastal Bangladesh, using local dialects, provide an early-warning system against tsunamis, flooding, and cyclones.
—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
Planting seasons, river baptisms, torture, prayers, African dialects, poverty, massacres, lynchings.
—
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dialects
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In recent years China’s Communist Party has ramped up oversight of religious institutions, rolled back the use of ethnic minority languages in primary, secondary schools and kindergartens.
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Among other things, the council revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with other religions and the laity, and allowed Mass to be celebrated in vernacular languages rather than Latin.
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Do the formal vocabularies that are supposed to encode my field actually capture how the people in it think?
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But more variations of Austronesian languages have been identified in Taiwan, accompanied with more intricate grammatical structures and expansive vocabularies, which has provided insights for linguists.
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On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.
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Out of love for different sound systems, different writing systems, different grammars, different sets of concepts, different idioms, different ways of seeing the world.
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“Dialects.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dialects. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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