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subˈdialect
[sub- 7.]
A subordinate dialect; a division of a dialect. Hence ˌsubdiaˈlectal a., of or pertaining to a subdialect.
1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 48 The French have three dialects, the Wallon..the Provensall, (whereof the Gascon is a subdialect) and the speech of Languedoc. c1645― Lett. (1650) I. 377 Yet hath she divers subdialects, as the Western and Northern English, but her chiefest is the Scotick. 1845Proc. Philol. Soc. II. 171 With respect to the languages of Southern India not related to Sanscrit, the Tamul, of which the others are only sub-dialects, presents no direct analogy. 1862Latham Channel Isl. iii. xix. 439 A sub-dialect of the Jersey. 1875Whitney Life Lang. xii. 245 The variety of sub-dialects, especially of the Lesghian, is very great. 1960Amer. Speech XXXV. 218 Least likely to be widely accepted is Hoenigswald's general theory as to the origin of sound change... He revives the old substratum theory in a subdialectal setting. 1978Language LIV. 10 The pattern of free variation (presumably representing subdialectal variation). |