dialect
n. countablen. a specific way of speaking a language, used by people from a particular region or social group.
n. a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
She speaks with a strong southern dialect.
His thick Scottish dialect made it hard for the tourists to understand his directions.
The novel captures the rhythm and vocabulary of the local dialect, grounding the narrative in its specific cultural setting.
From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγω (légō, “to speak”); by surface analysis, dia- + -lect.