Dialect, a variety of a language that signals where a person comes from. The notion is usually interpreted geographically (regional dialect), but it also has some application in relation to a person’s social background (class dialect) or occupation (occupational dialect). The word dialect comes from the Ancient Greek dialektos “discourse, language, dialect,” which is derived from dialegesthai “to discourse, talk.” A dialect is chiefly distinguished from other dialects of the same language by features of linguistic structure—i.e., grammar (specifically morphology and syntax) and vocabulary. Dialects are mutually intelligible forms of a language that differ in systematic ways.
A language of an individual speaker with its unique characteristics is referred to as the speaker idiolect.
English may then be said to consist of anywhere from 450 million to 840 million idiolects, or the number of speakers of English (which seems to be growing every day and is difficult to estimate).
Like individuals, different groups of people who speak the same language speak it differently, all exhibit variation in the way they speak English. When they are systematic differences in the way groups speak a language, we say that each group speaks a dialect of that language.
A dialect is not an inferior or degraded form of a language, and logically could not be so because a language is a collection of dialects.
There are two dialects that we are going to show next:
They are Regional Dialect and Social Dialect.
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