Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or belonging to a dialect; relating to or of the nature of a dialect: as, ‘cauld’ is a dialectal (Scotch) form of ‘cold’; the dialectal varieties of Italian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to a dialect; dialectical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to a
dialect . - adjective Not
linguistically standard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective belonging to or characteristic of a dialect
Etymologies
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Maybe this form represented some kind of dialectal variant that I wasn't familiar with.
Getting it Wrong Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Maybe this form represented some kind of dialectal variant that I wasn't familiar with.
Archive 2008-03-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008
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For the record, It would be a lie to say that Pa Kin (I think this is the way he spelled his name when writing in French) counts among my favorite Chinese writers (I hold Lu Xun and Lao She way above), probably because Hanye was precisely the very first Chinese book I read from the beginning to the end: I was very excited at first, because I understood everything so easily, until I had to admit that the language was very similar to that of our textbooks, too neutral, not "dialectal" enough for my taste; it's a pity, because the subject (a "modern" couple's rupture in wartime Chongqing) was worthy.
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From 1970 on, he wrote -- and directed and produced -- plays in Algerian dialectal Arabic (when practically no one had attempted literature in dialectal language) following, and preceding, plays, novels and poetry in French.
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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From 1970 on, he wrote -- and directed and produced -- plays in Algerian dialectal Arabic (when practically no one had attempted literature in dialectal language) following, and preceding, plays, novels and poetry in French.
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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The Nearika (Neali'ka is a dialectal variation), however, was in part the inspiration for the later yarn paintings, what the Huichols call nearikas.
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The Nearika (Neali'ka is a dialectal variation), however, was in part the inspiration for the later yarn paintings, what the Huichols call nearikas.
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From 1970 on, he wrote -- and directed and produced -- plays in Algerian dialectal Arabic (when practically no one had attempted literature in dialectal language) following, and preceding, plays, novels and poetry in French.
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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From 1970 on, he wrote -- and directed and produced -- plays in Algerian dialectal Arabic (when practically no one had attempted literature in dialectal language) following, and preceding, plays, novels and poetry in French.
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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From 1970 on, he wrote -- and directed and produced -- plays in Algerian dialectal Arabic (when practically no one had attempted literature in dialectal language) following, and preceding, plays, novels and poetry in French.
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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