DIALECTS

Meaning of DIALECTS in English

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Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary. Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь. 2005

DIALECTS — plural of dialect
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DIALECTS — Диалекты
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
DIALECTS — Диалекты
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
DIALECTS — Диалекты
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
RHAETIAN DIALECTS — also called Rhaeto-romance, group of Romance dialects spoken in Switzerland and northern Italy. The most important Rhaetian dialects are Sursilvan …
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YIDDISH LANGUAGE
Английский словарь Британика
TIBETAN LANGUAGE — Sino-Tibetan language spoken by more than five million people in Tibet (Xizang), Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu provinces in China; Bhutan; …
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DIALECT — I. dialect noun ( -s ) Etymology: Greek dialektos debate, conversation, variety of language distinguished from other varieties of common …
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DIALECT — a variety of a language that is used by one group of persons and has features of vocabulary, grammar, or …
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UZBEK LANGUAGE — member of the Turkic language subfamily of the Altaic family, spoken in Uzbekistan, eastern Turkmenistan, northern and western Tajikistan, southern …
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TAI LANGUAGES — closely related family of languages, of which the Thai (Siamese) language of Thailand is the most important member. Because the …
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SWISS GERMAN LANGUAGE — German Schweizer Deutsch, Swiss German Schwyzerttsch, collective name for the great variety of Alemannic (Upper German) dialects spoken in Switzerland …
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SLOVAK LANGUAGE — Slovak Slovencina West Slavic language closely related to Czech, Polish, and the Sorbian languages of eastern Germany. It is the …
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SLAVIC LANGUAGES — Distribution of the Slavic languages in Europe. also called Slavonic languages group of Indo-European languages spoken in most of eastern …
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ROMANCE LANGUAGES — Figure 2: Distribution of Romance languages in Europe. group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times …
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OLD HIGH GERMAN — any of the West Germanic dialects spoken in the highlands of southern Germany, Switzerland, and Austria until the end of …
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OCCITAN LANGUAGE — also called Languedoc, or Provenal, a Romance language spoken by about 1,500,000 people in southern France. All Occitan speakers use …
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NIGER-CONGO LANGUAGES — Distribution of the Niger-Congo languages. a family of languages of Africa, which in terms of the number of languages spoken, …
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JAPANESE LANGUAGE — one of the world's major languages, ranking ninth in terms of the number of speakers with 125 million. It is …
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JAPAN SERIES — Japanese Nihon (or Nippon) Shirizu in baseball, a seven-game play-off between champions of the two professional major-league divisions in Japan, …
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IRANIAN LANGUAGES — subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. The subgroup's languages are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and …
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INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES — also called Indic languages subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, …
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GREEK LANGUAGE
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE — language that originated in England and is now widely spoken on six continents. It is the primary language of the …
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DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGES — family of 23 languages spoken in South Asia. The major languages are Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gondi, Kurukh, and Tulu. …
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CELTIC LANGUAGES — also spelled Keltic, branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken throughout much of Western Europe in Roman and pre-Roman times …
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CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES — Distribution of the Caucasian languages also called Paleo-Caucasian, or Ibero-Caucasian, group of languages indigenous to Transcaucasia and adjacent areas of …
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ARMENIAN LANGUAGE — language that forms a separate branch of the Indo-European language family. (It was once erroneously considered a dialect of Iranian.) …
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ARABIC LANGUAGE — Southern-Central Semitic language spoken in a large area including North Africa, most of the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of …
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DIALECT — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE local ▪ The narrator uses the local dialect where necessary. ▪ Many of the …
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TIBETAN LANGUAGE — Sino-Tibetan language spoken by more than five million people in Tibet (Xizang), Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu provinces in China; Bhutan; …
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