Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An inferior dialect; a subordinate or less important or prominent dialect.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A subordinate dialect.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A subordinate division of a dialect

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ dialect

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Examples

  • The great aviation writer Barrett Tillman pitched in with info on military radiospeak, a poetic subdialect I happen to love.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • The great aviation writer Barrett Tillman pitched in with info on military radiospeak, a poetic subdialect I happen to love.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Rather, the republic adopted a Texas subdialect of the American dialect of law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Rather, the republic adopted a Texas subdialect of the American dialect of law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Rather, the republic adopted a Texas subdialect of the American dialect of law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Nash is also a Slovak-influenced Galician subdialect of Ukrainian.

    languagehat.com: SVOJA MOVA. 2005

  • Centuries later, as the individual countries were formed, one subdialect was decreed to be the official language of each: that of Castile became Spanish, of Tuscany,

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1 1985

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