Project:Dialects

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

The Languages of David J. Peterson uses {{label}} to label as dialectal:

1. alternative spellings:
   1. (Britain) colour
   2. (US) color
2. words:
   1. (Britain) anorak
3. inflected forms:
   1. (Britain and African American Vernacular) learnt
   2. (US) learned

The Languages of David J. Peterson uses {{a}} (which stands for "accent") to label pronunciations as dialectal:

1. (US) IPA^(key): /sɝ/
2. (UK) IPA^(key): /sɜː/

Dialects in etymologies

The Languages of David J. Peterson 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