- 1方言。教科書有時把台語寫成方言；很多說話的人會說它是一種語言。英文 dialect 也有同樣的政治味道。
A dialect is a form of a language spoken in one area, with words, sounds, or grammar a little different from other forms of the same language. People from nearby places can often still understand each other. Though actually, the tidy school idea that “language” is big and “dialect” is small is messier than it looks: there is no sharp scientific line. Groups with power tend to call their own way “the language” and other people’s way “a dialect.” Linguists also use dialect for the speech of a social group, not only of a town. It is a neutral word in ; in ordinary talk it can sound as if the speaker means “not the proper kind.”
From the word’s history
From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος 'conversation, local idiom', from dia- + legein 'to speak'.
經法文、拉丁文來自古希臘文，原意「交談、地方語言」。
組成From Greek diálektos, the speech of a place, from dia- “through, across” + a root for “speak.” It came through Latin and French. On the surface: dia- + -lect.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dialectnoun/ˈdaɪ.əˌlɛkt/
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA lect (often a regional or minority language) 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 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).
- The question could be put: 'Is there anything inherent in a dialect which gives it a negative stigma or is it that the status of the majority of the speakers is transferred to the dialect?' — something that occurs in many regions in different countries.
- Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA 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.
- And in addition, many dialects of English make no morphological distinction between Adjectives and Adverbs, and thus use Adjectives in contexts where the standard language requires -ly Adverbs
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derogatoryLanguage that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
- Well, those children don't speak dialect, not in this school. Maybe in the public schools, but not here.
- […] on the second day, Miss Anderson gave the school a lecture on why it was wrong to speak dialect. She had ended by saying "Respectable people don't speak dialect."
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offensiveA language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA variant of a non-standardized programming language.
- Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.
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biologynatural-sciencesornithologyA variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
- A curious question, which has as yet attracted but little attention, is whether the notes of the same species of Bird are in all countries alike. From my own observation I am inclined to think that they are not, and that there exist "dialects," so to speak, of the song.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。