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dialects

NOUN

local speech

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accent idiom jargon language lingo patois pronunciation slang terminology tongue vernacular vocabulary

STRONG

argot cant localism patter provincialism regionalism

Antonyms

STRONGEST

standard

Example Sentences

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The world's biggest US AI chatbots do not work in all of India's 22 official languages - let alone the hundreds of dialects that exist within them.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

A gifted linguist, she soon mastered Mayan dialects.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

All the enlightened reformers in Europe were desperately trying to eliminate the peasant peculiarities and plebeian dialects that divided the peoples of their nations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

In a career spanning 33 years, 52-year-old Garg sang in more than 40 languages and dialects.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

But all those 500 Bantu languages are so similar to each other that they have been facetiously described as 500 dialects of a single language.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond