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regionalect

noun

Etymology

Blend of region + dialect.

  1. derived from διάλεκτος
  2. derived from dialectos
  3. derived from dialecte
  4. compounded as regionalect — “region + dialect”

Definitions

  1. A dialect spoken in a particular geographical region.

    • Although the government regulated against speaking Taiwanese regionalects in school, it was much more lenient before 1970, at least in the degree of strictness in enforcing regulations against the offenders.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for regionalect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA