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DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse) , a particular or characteristic manner of speech, and hence any variety of a language. In its widest sense languages
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Greek
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languages
French , Spanish, &c., were dialects of Latin. Again, where there have existed side by side, as in England, various branches of a language, such as the languages of the Angles, the Jutes or the Saxons
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modern
English
original
of Norman, French , and later literary and scientific additions from classical and other sources, while the present-day " dialects " preserve, in inflections, pronunciation and particular words, traces of the original variety of the language not incorporated in the standard language of the country. See the various articles on languages (English
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