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subdialect

(ˈsʌbˌdaɪəlɛkt)
n
(Linguistics) linguistics a division of a larger dialect
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Linguistically, the basic grammar of the Kempo subdialect has been reported by Semiun (1993) in his master's thesis published by La Trobe University Melbourne, as also cited in Arka (2004).
Further distinctions in subdialect and native-place origin also brought about sub-identities within the dominant Zhongshan group.
--the Da Mong [Tua Mong?] of the "Bianyang branch" inhabiting, in Guizhou province, Luodian, Huishui, Changshun, and Wangmo districts speaking a "Southwestern subdialect of (H)mong language".
Defenders of the media have long posited that showing stock footage and file photos is simply part of the language of modern journalism and that savvy viewers understand it as a subdialect of truth.
Iroquoian language), Utku (a subdialect of Netsilik, originally spoken
(30) (Plus it's true that whether something gets called a "subdialect" or "jargon" seems to depend on how much it annoys people outside its Discourse Community.
Johnston, Jr., of the dialect which uses recent research, including the Linguistic Atlas, to establish an East Midland provenance, and to propose that the two parts of the text `come from separate areas within the subdialect group and that therefore they were composed by different men although copied by the same person'(p.
The [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] lexicographers recorded the most ancient variant of sal'm from the extinct Cai subdialect. The variant soum with the sound transition al > au > ou typical for the central part of the Veps language is used in two Central-Veps subdialects.
In addition to recording their stories, he obtained several hundred artefacts, including samples of clothing and basketry, and made preliminary observations on the local subdialect, a variant of Labrador (now Nunatsiavut) Inuktitut, which was verging on extinction.
So strong has been their ethnocentrism that, while the Nam Long people have adopted the standard Zhongshan or Shekki (Shiqi) speech (a subdialect of the Yue or Cantonese dialect) in school and business, their ancestral tongue has persisted in their villages along with traditional customs and inbred bloodlines.
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