as in languages
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
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
Human communication with honeyguides in northern Mozambique occurs in local dialects.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Not between English and other languages but between the dialects spoken by different corners of the industry.
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Amber Nigam,
Harvard Business Review,
11 Mar. 2026
Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims, but the Kurdish population has diverse religious, cultural, social and political traditions, as well as a variety of dialects of the Kurdish language.
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Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 2026
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
Human communication with honeyguides in northern Mozambique occurs in local dialects.
—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Not between English and other languages but between the dialects spoken by different corners of the industry.
—
Amber Nigam,
Harvard Business Review,
11 Mar. 2026
Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims, but the Kurdish population has diverse religious, cultural, social and political traditions, as well as a variety of dialects of the Kurdish language.
—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 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 4 Jul. 2026.
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