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Dialect (Definition (: a regional variety of language distinguished by…
Dialect
Definition
: a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language
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History
Music of era
Claudio Monteverdi: Italian Renaissance composer and a significant developer of new genre — ‘operas’.
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Writer from time period
Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, and the most important and celebrated figure in Spanish literature.
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First known use
1566, Original Definition
Etymology
Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectus, from Greek dialektos conversation, dialect, from dialegesthai to converse
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Synonym
Argot: the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
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Antonym
Accent: prominence of a syllable in terms of differential loudness, or of pitch, or length, or of a combination of these.
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