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....

In sociolinguistics, covert prestige is the high social prestige with which certain nonstandard languages or dialects are regarded within a speech community...

neighbouring dialects. Bengali dialects can be thus classified along at least two dimensions: spoken vs. literary variations, and prestige vs. regional...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

dialects spoken by Gorals in Western Carpathians bordering Poland and Slovakia), which include: Carpathian-Podgórze Goral dialects Babia Góra dialect...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as having lower social status or less prestige in contrast to standard language...

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

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

referred to Braj Bhasha and other dialects as Pariboli (Hindi: पड़ी बोली, Urdu: پڑی بولی, lit. 'fallen/supine dialects'). Although most linguists acknowledge...

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

well as Meizhou dialect (梅州話), or Jiaying dialect and Gayin dialect, Kayin dialect is the prestige dialect of Hakka Chinese. It is named after Meixian...

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)...

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...

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

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...

South Swedish dialects Scanian Göta dialects Gotland dialects Svealand dialects Norrland dialects Jämtland dialects East Swedish dialects Finland Swedish...