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Dialects are regional or historic (temporal) varieties of individual languages.

:''See [[Project:Languages]] and [[Project:Families]] for discussions of languages and of language families, respectively.''

==Dialectal senses, spellings, forms etc==
{{SITENAME}} uses {{temp|label}} to label as dialectal:
# alternative spellings:
## {{lb|en|UK}} ''colour''
## {{lb|en|US}} ''color''
# words:
## {{lb|en|UK}} ''anorak''
# inflected forms:
## {{lb|en|UK|_|and|_|AAVE}} ''learnt''
## {{lb|en|US}} ''learned''

{{SITENAME}} uses {{temp|a}} (which stands for "'''a'''ccent") to label pronunciations as dialectal:
# {{a|US}} {{IPA|en|/sɝ/}}
# {{a|UK}} {{IPA|en|/sɜː/}}

==Dialects in etymologies==
{{SITENAME}} uses a small number of exceptional codes to represent specific varieties of languages in etymology sections, while not having full entries in those languages. Some may be deprecated. These codes are stored in '''[[Module:etymology languages/data]]'''.

==See also==
* [[Project:Languages]], [[Project:Families]], [[Project:Scripts]]