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Language dialects are variations within a single human language which are mutually comprehensible to speakers of each variant.  Despite opinions to the contrary, American English and British English, for example, are merely dialects of English and not entirely different languages. more
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x Kathiawari   Gujarati Language  
x Surati   Gujarati Language  
x Arabic, Algerian Spoken Language   Arabic language  
x Arabic, Egyptian Spoken Language   Arabic language  
x Arabic, Chadian Spoken Language   Arabic language  
x Arabic, Baharna Spoken Language   Arabic language
Bahrani Arabic (Baharnah, Bahrani, Baharna Arabic [ISO 639-3]) is a variety of Arabic spoken by the Bahranis of Bahrain and some parts of Saudi Eastern Province, and also in Oman. In Bahrain, the dialect is spoken in the capital, Manama, and in...
x Arabic, Gulf Spoken Language   Arabic language
Gulf Arabic (also known as Khaliji, al-lahja al-khalijiya اللهجة الخليجية) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken around both shores of the Persian Gulf such as in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and parts of Oman...
x Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken Language   Arabic language  
x Arabic, South Levantine Spoken Language   Arabic language  
x Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Language   Arabic language  
x Arabic, Moroccan Spoken Language   Arabic language  
x Arabic, Libyan Spoken Language The vowel phonemes of Libyan Arabic Arabic language
Libyan Arabic (Lībi ليبي; also known as Sulaimitian Arabic) is a collective term for the closely related varieties of Arabic spoken in Libya. It can be divided into two major dialect areas; the eastern centred in Benghazi, and the western centred in...
x Hassaniyya Language   Arabic language  
x Najdi Arabic   Arabic language
Najdi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة النجدية‎) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in the desert and oases of central Saudi Arabia. There are four major groups of Najdi Arabic. 1. Northern Najdi, spoken in Zulfi, Qaseem and Jabal Shammar regions of...
x Syrian Arabic   Arabic language
Syrian Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة السورية‎) is a Levantine variety of Arabic spoken in Syria and Lebanon. Syria has three major dialectal zones. Central from Damascus to Hama and North in the Aleppo region. Varieties of Syrian Arabic are spoken in these...
x Arabic, Tunisian Spoken Language Tunisian Arabic advert Arabic language
Tunisian Arabic is a Maghrebi dialect of the Arabic language, spoken by some 11 million people. It is usually known by its own speakers as Darija, to distinguish it from Standard Arabic, or as Tunsi, which means Tunisian. It is spoken all over...
x Yemeni Arabic   Arabic language
Yemeni Arabic is the name of a cluster of Arabic varieties spoken in Yemen, southwestern Saudi Arabia, and northern Somalia. It is generally considered a very conservative dialect cluster, as it has many classical features not found across most of...
x Arabic, Sudanese Spoken Language   Arabic language
Sudanese Arabic is the variety of Arabic spoken throughout northern Sudan. It has much borrowed vocabulary from the local languages (El Rutana). This has resulted in a variety of Arabic that is unique to Sudan, reflecting the way in which the...
x Arabic, Sudanese Creole Language   Arabic language  
x Acadian French Acadian French French Language
Acadian French (le français acadien) is a variety or dialect of French spoken by francophone Acadians in the Canadian Maritime provinces, the Saint John River Valley in northern Maine, the Magdalen Islands and Havre-Saint-Pierre, along the St....
x African French Francophone Africa French Language
African French is the generic name of the varieties of French spoken by an estimated 115 million African people spread across 31 francophone African countries. This includes those who speak French as a first or second language in these 31...
x Aostan French   French Language
Aostan French (French: franᅢᄃais d'Aoste) is the dialect of French spoken in the Aosta region of Italy, where there is a significant Francophone population.
x Swiss French Swiss languages French Language
Swiss French (French: Français de Suisse) is the name used for the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. Swiss French is not to be confused with Franco-Provençal/Arpitan or Romansh, two other Romance...
x Lao French   French Language
Lao French is a dialect of the French language spoken in Laos. The creation of this dialect goes back to the French colonization of Indochina, although since Laos' independence from France, and the Communist takeover, the number of French speakers...
x French, Cajun Language French, Cajun Language French Language
Cajun French (sometimes called Louisiana Regional French) is a variety or dialects of the French language spoken primarily in the U.S. state of Louisiana, specifically in the southern parishes of Orleans, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the...
x Belgian French elgieGemeenschappenkaart French Language
Belgian French (French: français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly in the French Community of Belgium, alongside related minority regional languages such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois and Gaumais. The French spoken in the...
x Canadian French   French Language
Canadian French is an umbrella term for the varieties of the French language used in Canada. French is the mother tongue of about seven million Canadians (22% of the national population) and is one of the country's two official languages, along with...
x Cambodian French   French Language
Cambodian French or French Cambodian may refer to:
x Maghreb French Maghreb2 French Language
French is an administrative language and commonly used, though not on an official basis, in the Maghreb states of Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The language was introduced to the region during French colonial rule in the 19th and 20th...
x Newfoundland French   French Language
Newfoundland French is a regional dialect of French that was once spoken by French colonists on the island of Newfoundland. It is distinct from other French dialects in Canada, such as the Québécois and Acadian varieties. France colonized portions...
x Louisiana Creole French Language St Martin Parish Louisiana French Language
Louisiana Creole (Kréyol La Lwizyàn) is a French Creole language spoken by the mixed Louisiana Creole people of the state of Louisiana. The language consists of elements of French, Native American, Spanish, and West African roots. Speakers of...
x Quebec French   French Language
Quebec French (French: le français québécois, le français du Québec), or less often Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language in Canada, in its formal and informal registers. Quebec French is used in everyday communication,...
x Jersey Legal French Official stone dated 1999 bearing the names of the Procureurs du Bien Public during whose term of office the stone was placed French Language
Jersey Legal French, also known as Jersey French, is the official dialect of French used administratively in Jersey. Since the anglicisation of the island, it survives as a written language for some laws, contracts, and other documents. Jersey's...
x Schwyzerdütsch Language Swiss languages German Language
Swiss German (Schweizerdeutsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch) is any of the Alemannic dialects spoken in Switzerland and in some Alpine communities in Northern Italy. Occasionally, the Alemannic dialects spoken in other countries...
x Swabian Language   German Language  
x Bavarian Language Location map of Austro-Bavarian German Language
Austro-Bavarian or Bavarian is a major group of Upper German varieties. Like standard German, Austro-Bavarian is a High German language, but they are not the same language. However, Austro-Bavarian and Standard German have influenced each other and...
x East Franconian German Ostfraenkischer Sprachraum German Language
East Franconian (Ostfränkisch) is a dialect which is spoken in northern Bavaria and other areas in Germany around Bamberg, Coburg, Würzburg, Hof, Bayreuth and Suhl. The major subgroup is Main-Franconian. The Vogtländisch and Erzgebirgisch dialects...
x Hessian dialect Verbreitungsgebiet des heutigen Mitteldeutschen German Language
Hessian (Ger.: Hessisch) is a West Central German dialect group of the German language. The dialect most similar to Hessian is Palatinate German (Ger.: Pfälzisch, pronounced approx. "Feltzish") of the Rhine Franconian sub-family. However, the...
x Lorraine Franconian   German Language
Lorraine Franconian (French: francique mosellan, platt lorrain, platt mosellan) is a designation, in practice ambiguous, for dialects of German spoken in the north-eastern part of the French region of Lorraine. These dialects all belong to the...
x Ripuarian   German Language
Ripuarian (Ripoarish or Ripuarisch Platt, literally: "Riverine" or "Riparian Low German") is a West Germanic dialect group spoken in the Rhineland, eastern Belgium and southern Dutch Limburg from northwest of Düsseldorf and Cologne to Aachen in the...
x Moselle Franconian Mehring-pfeife German Language
Moselle Franconian is a group of High German dialects spoken in parts of the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, in the south of the German-speaking Community of Belgium, in the neighbouring département of Moselle in...
x Thuringian   German Language
Thuringian is an East Central German dialect spoken in much of the modern German Free State of Thuringia. It is similar to Upper Saxon German. It is one of the Central German dialects with the highest number of speakers.
x Saxon, Upper Language   German Language
Upper Saxon (German: Obersächsisch or colloquially (but incorrectly), Sächsisch) is a Central German dialect spoken in much of the modern German States of Saxony and Thuringia. The degree of accent varies from place to place within the states, with...
x Low Franconian languages Low Franconian language area with West Meuse-Rhenish: ([5] and [6]) German Language
Low Franconian, or Low Frankish, is a group of several West Germanic languages spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium (Flanders), in the northern department of France, in western Germany (Lower Rhine), as well as in Suriname, South Africa and...
x Sathmarisch   German Language
Sathmarisch is a dialect of High German. Sathmarisch is or was spoken in Romania in Satu Mare by persons of Swabian speaking German origin. Most speakers have emigrated into Western Germany.
x Siebenbürgisch   German Language
Siebenbürgisch is a dialect of High German. Siebenbürgisch is spoken in Romania in Transylvania by persons of mainly Western German origin. Most speakers have emigrated to Western Germany.
x Wymysorys   German Language  
x Brazilian German   German Language
Brazilian German is a generic name for German dialects spoken in Brazil. German dialects are in use in Brazil as a result of German settlements, made by Germans, Swiss, and Austrians. These dialects evolved through foreign borrowings. They were...
x West Central German Westmitteldeutsches Mundartgebiet German Language
West Central German belongs to the Central, High German dialect family in the German language. Its dialects are thoroughly Franconian including the following sub-families: Apart from West Central German on the southern edge and in south-east...
x German, Colonia Tovar Language   German Language
Alemán Coloniero, spoken in Colonia Tovar, Venezuela, is a dialect that belongs to the Low Alemannic branch of German. The language, like other Alemannic dialects, is not mutually intelligible with Standard German. It is spoken by descendants of...
x Hollandic /wikipedia/images/en_id/5156568 Dutch Language
Hollandic or Hollandish (Dutch: Hollands) is, together with Brabantian, the most frequently used dialect of the Dutch language. The other important Low Franconian dialects are East Flemish, West Flemish and Limburgish. Originally in the later county...
x Frisian language Jem fohren nu dör de Niekoog Dutch Language
The Frisian languages are a closely related group of Germanic languages, spoken by about 500,000 members of Frisian ethnic groups, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany. The Frisian languages are...
x Brabantian /wikipedia/images/en_id/5156568 Dutch Language
Brabantian or Brabantish, also: Brabantic (Brabantian: Braobans; Dutch: Brabants) is a dialect group of the Dutch language. It is named after the historical Duchy of Brabant which corresponded mainly to the Dutch province of North Brabant, the...
x Flemish Nederlands-westvlaams Dutch Language
In English usage, Flemish (Dutch: Vlaams (help·info)) can refer to Flemish is derived from the name of the County of Flanders, from Middle Dutch vlāmisch, vlemesch. The name of the County of Flanders itself was first attested in Ghent, in 1237, and...
x Limburgish language Position of Limburgish (Blue) among the other Dutch dialects Dutch Language
Limburgish, or Limburgian or Limburgic (Dutch: Limburgs, German: Limburgisch, French: Limbourgeois) is a group of Franconian varieties, spoken in the Limburg and Rhineland regions, near the common Dutch / Belgian / German border. The area in which...
x Munster Irish   Irish
Munster Irish is the dialect of the Irish language spoken in the province of Munster. Gaeltacht regions in Munster are found in the Dingle Peninsula Gaeltacht of west Kerry, in the Iveragh Peninsula in south Kerry, in Cape Clear Island off the coast...
x Connacht Irish An Irish-language sign in County Galway Irish
Connacht Irish is the dialect of the Irish language spoken in the province of Connacht. Gaeltacht regions in Connacht are found in Counties Mayo (notably Tourmakeady, Achill Island and Erris) and Galway (notably in parts of Connemara and on the Aran...
x Ulster Irish Ulster Irish Irish
Ulster Irish is the dialect of the Irish language spoken in the province of Ulster. The largest Gaeltacht region today is in Donegal, so that the term Donegal Irish is often used synonymously. Nevertheless records of the language as it was spoken in...
x Csángó Csangos Hungarian
The Csango people (Romanian: Ceangăi, Hungarian: Csángók) are a Hungarian ethnic group of Roman Catholic faith living mostly in the Romanian region of Moldavia, especially in the Bacău County. Their traditional language, Csango, an old Hungarian...
x Vietnamese French    
Vietnamese French is a dialect of French spoken in Vietnam. It is often characterized by code switching Vietnamese words for their French counterparts. This dialect dates back to the colonization of Indochina by France.
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