Regional vs Dialect - What's the difference?
regional | dialect |
Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.
Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.
(Australia) Of a state or other geographic area, those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.
* 1988 , Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia , Issue 71,
* 2005 , Joy McCann, Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia?s Wheatlands'', Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie (editors), ''Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia ,
* 2011 , Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson, Frommer?s Australia 2011 ,
An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.
* 1985' March 11, James Connolly, ''CPE big item on '''regionals ? omnivorous market menu'', '' ,
* 2001 , Harold L. Vogel, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis ,
* 2006 , Franklynn Peterson, Judi Kesselman-Turkel, The Magazine Writer?s Handbook ,
(linguistics) A variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.
* A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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A dialect of a language perceived as substandard and wrong.
* 1967 , Roger W. Shuy, Discovering American dialects , National Council of Teachers of English, page 1:
* 1975 , Linguistic perspectives on black English , H. Carl, page 219:
* 1994 , H. Nigel Thomas, Spirits in the dark , Heinemann, page 11:
A language.
A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
As nouns the difference between regional and dialect
is that regional is an entity or event with scope limited to a single region while dialect is a variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.As an adjective regional
is of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.regional
English
Adjective
(-)page 94,
- The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, Inner Regional' Australia, Outer ' Regional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory.
- An estimated two-thirds (66.3%) of the total population resided in Major Cities as at 30 June 2001. The rest were mainly residents of Inner and Outer Regional areas (31.1%) with only 2.6% of people in Remote or Very Remote areas.
page 03-1,
- The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia.
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- HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and many regional four-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia?s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks.
Noun
(en noun)page 125,
- In the CPE[Customer Premises Equipment] market, all seven regionals are selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers.
page 44,
- Regionals are among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million.
page 12,
- Regional magazines are general interest publications for readers who live in a particular area of the country. Most major cities have their own regionals : New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Miami ...
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English
(wikipedia dialect)Noun
(en noun)- And in addition, many dialects of English make no morphological distinction between Adjectives and Adverbs, and thus use Adjectives in contexts where the standard language requires -ly'' Adverbs: compare
(81) (a) Tex talks ''really quickly'' [Adverb + Adverb]
(b) %Tex talks ''real quick [Adjective + Adjective]
- Many even deny it and say something like this: "No, we don't speak a dialect around here.
[...]
- Well, those children don't speak dialect , not in this school. Maybe in the public schools, but not here.
[...] on the second day, Miss Anderson gave the school a lecture on why it was wrong to speak dialect'. She had ended by saying "Respectable people don't speak ' dialect ."
- Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.
