A prestige dialect is the dialect that is considered most prestigious by the members of that speech community. In nearly all cases, the prestige dialect...

prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects....

covert prestige is a type of scenario in which nonstandard languages or dialects are regarded to be of high linguistic prestige by members of a speech...

of South Asia. The spoken dialects of Bengali are mutually intelligible with neighbouring dialects. Bengali dialects can be thus classified along at least...

isolated pockets in Ukraine Often the usage of dialects are avoided due to negative associations and low prestige, and as such, there is often a preference...

justified in terms of social prestige include Italian dialects and languages as (L) and Standard Italian as (H) in Italy and German dialects and Standard German...

Hokkien Campaign Languages of China Languages of Taiwan Languages of Singapore List of prestige dialects Amoy Min Nan Swadesh list Sino-Tibetan Swadesh lists...

variants can be attributed to the original settler dialects as well as local native languages and dialects. Some organizations, such as SIL International...

century. There are at least 18 dialects of the language. Standard Georgian is largely based on the prestige Kartlian dialect. It has over centuries wiped...

Guangfu dialects Guangzhou dialect Hong Kong dialect Macau dialect Xiguan dialect Wuzhou dialect Tanka dialect Sanyi / Nanpanshun dialects Nanhai dialect Jiujiang...

the Greek dialect of the ancient region of Attica, including the polis of Athens. Often called classical Greek, it was the prestige dialect of the Greek...

terms of mutual intelligibility, a survey in 1967 found the four most unintelligible dialects (excluding Ryūkyūan languages and Tohoku dialects) to students...

Caribbean dialects (Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican) as well as in mainland Venezuela, in most Colombian dialects excepting Pastuso dialect that belongs...

considerably from region to region. Several prestige dialects have developed around the major urban centers of Stockholm, Helsinki, Gothenburg and Malmö–Lund...

Italian dialects Japanese dialects Korean dialects Norwegian dialects Nguni languages Dialects of Polish Portuguese dialects Romanian dialects Russian...

Mandarin dialects typically feature two nasal finals (/n/ and /ŋ/), these have merged into one in Jianghuai Mandarin dialects. The earliest dialect of Nanjing...

dialect (simplified Chinese: 北京话; traditional Chinese: 北京話; pinyin: Běijīnghuà), also known as Pekingese and Beijingese, is the prestige dialect of Mandarin...

well as Meizhou dialect (梅州話), or Jiaying dialect and Sixian dialect (in Taiwan), is the prestige dialect of Hakka Chinese. It is named after Meixian District...

the Southern Tuscan dialects, and Corsican. The Northern Tuscan dialects are (from east to west): Fiorentino, the main dialect of Florence, Chianti and...

dialects) has the same geographic origin as the Swiss High German (Schweizer Hochdeutsch, not to be confused with the Alemannic Swiss German dialects)...

other dialects of English are spoken, which have developed differently from these standardized accents, particularly regional dialects. Descriptions of standardized...

Voiceless lateral In Gawarbati, some Pashai dialects, partly Bashkarik and some Shina dialects have /ɬ/ from clusters of tr kr or sometimes pr; dr gr and br merged...

Guangfu dialects natively. Ngau–Lau dialects are spoken in inland areas of western Guangdong and eastern Guangxi, and include the dialect of Yulin (Bobai)...

are different dialects of Gan; the Nanchang dialect is the prestige dialect. Like all other varieties of Chinese, there is a large amount of mutual unintelligibility...

powerful pronunciation shibboleth in England." In fully H-dropping dialects, that is, in dialects without a phonemic /h/, the sound [h] may still occur but with...

and thus has the most prestige out of the Somali dialects. Due to being wide spread, it forms the basis for Standard Somali. Most of the classical Somali...

historical dialects probably existed after the Great Trek in the 1830s. These dialects are the Northern Cape, Western Cape, and Eastern Cape dialects. Northern...

wide variety of local dialects exist. The following are some languages closely related to Persian, or in some cases are considered dialects: Luri (or Lori)...

is a specific form of a language or language cluster. This may include languages, dialects, registers, styles, or other forms of language, as well as...

group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the...