A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class. In popular usage, the word "dialect" is sometimes used to refer to a lesser-known language (most commonly a regional language), especially one that is unwritten or not standardized.
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| - A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class. In popular usage, the word "dialect" is sometimes used to refer to a lesser-known language (most commonly a regional language), especially one that is unwritten or not standardized.
- Occasionally Fighting Fantasy books use different kinds of English (particularly lower-status regional dialect features) to represent the speech of individuals of different social backgrounds. Examples include:
* The landlord of the coaching inn near Lake Libra in Analand who says "Ain't no one come yer this morning" (= No one has come here this morning).
* The stablemen at the same coaching inn say "'Ere, we fed and watered 'im", "Ate most of his own weight, he did, greedy devil" and "Cost yer a gold, that will".
* The villagers who tell you about Sandar.
- A dialect was a variant of an existing language. The "old tongue" was a dialect of the Talaxian language. (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth") The Xindi-Insectoid language had sixty-seven dialects. (ENT: "The Council") The Klingon language featured eighty poly-guttural dialects. In 2151, the universal translator of Enterprise could not lock onto Klaang's dialect. (ENT: "Broken Bow") The frequency distortions created by a symbiotic lifeform reminded Hoshi Sato of the phonetic patterns in some Andorian dialects. (ENT: "Vox Sola")
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| - A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class. In popular usage, the word "dialect" is sometimes used to refer to a lesser-known language (most commonly a regional language), especially one that is unwritten or not standardized.
- A dialect was a variant of an existing language. The "old tongue" was a dialect of the Talaxian language. (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth") The Xindi-Insectoid language had sixty-seven dialects. (ENT: "The Council") The Klingon language featured eighty poly-guttural dialects. In 2151, the universal translator of Enterprise could not lock onto Klaang's dialect. (ENT: "Broken Bow") The frequency distortions created by a symbiotic lifeform reminded Hoshi Sato of the phonetic patterns in some Andorian dialects. (ENT: "Vox Sola") By 2154, the UT of the Enterprise had been programmed with seven Klingon dialects. (ENT: "The Augments") In 2267, Captain Kirk told Spock that the baby language used towards Leonard James Akaar was an "obscure Earth dialect". (TOS: "Friday's Child" ) The Talaxian language had at least one dialect, the Old Tongue dialect. In 2376, Neelix searched the Talaxian linguistic files section of his personal database for the word vaadwaur. (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth")
- Occasionally Fighting Fantasy books use different kinds of English (particularly lower-status regional dialect features) to represent the speech of individuals of different social backgrounds. Examples include:
* The landlord of the coaching inn near Lake Libra in Analand who says "Ain't no one come yer this morning" (= No one has come here this morning).
* The stablemen at the same coaching inn say "'Ere, we fed and watered 'im", "Ate most of his own weight, he did, greedy devil" and "Cost yer a gold, that will".
* The villagers who tell you about Sandar.
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