Ethnolect vs. Dialect

Ethnolectnoun

A language variety specific to an ethnic group.

Ethnolect

An ethnolect is generally defined as a language variety that mark speakers as members of ethnic groups who originally used another language or distinctive variety. According to another definition, an ethnolect is any speech variety (language, dialect, subdialect) associated with a specific ethnic group.

Dialectnoun

(linguistics) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or group, often differing from other varieties of the same language in minor ways as regards vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.

Dialectnoun

(pejorative) Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.

Dialectnoun

A language (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized variety that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Cantonese as contrasted with Mandarin Chinese, or Bavarian as contrasted with German).

Dialectnoun

A variant of a non-standardized programming language.

Dialectnoun

(ornithology) A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.

Dialectnoun

Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.

Dialectnoun

The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.

Dialectnoun

the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people;

Dialectnoun

a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group

Dialectnoun

a particular version of a programming language.

Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos, from the Ancient Greek word διάλεκτος, diálektos 'discourse', from διά, diá 'through' and λέγω, légō 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena: a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. Under this definition, the dialects or varieties of a particular language are closely related and are often mutually intelligible, especially if close to one another on the dialect continuum.