dialects

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Each province has a major dialect and many subdialects.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Crete, which shows a considerable variety of subdialects, the most important document is the great inscription from Gortyn containing twelve tables of family law, which was discovered in 1884.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

There is an infinity of dialects and subdialects in Brittany, but it is usual to divide them into four groups.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

The Félibrige movement appears to have endowed southern France with a literary language rivalling the French; it appears to have given an impulse toward the unification of the dialects and subdialects of the langue d'oc.

From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Downer, Charles Alfred