A spoken regional dialect is a dialect of a language that exists as a spoken (but not written) dialect in some area. For instance, using English as an example, there is an area of the American Southeast where people use something called double modals ("I might could help you with that" as opposed to "I might be able to help you with that") when speaking, but not in writing.
Since you asked this question in the Non-English section, German is a language comprised almost completely of a horde of very different dialects. However, the German government has been working for the last few hundred years to stamp these out. Take Saxon German, a dialect of German spoken in a region in the East bordering on the Czech Republic--one can speak Sächsisch (I'm not getting into a discussion here of where and when, since that is very much a personal choice), but one should not, say, write an essay in it.
In this tradition, characters in books can speak the dialect, but a book itself is very rarely written in a spoken regional dialect, and it's mostly for effect.
a list of dialects in the UK
Punjabi is a dialect spoken in urdu.
There are over 7,000 languages spoken worldwide, and many of these languages have multiple dialects. It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of dialects spoken globally, with some languages having hundreds of dialect variations.
nahuatl
There are eight major languages in the Philippines, with over 100 dialects derived from them. Some of the most spoken dialects include Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Bikolano, and Kapampangan. Each dialect has its own unique characteristics and is spoken in different regions of the country.
Yes, there are different dialects of Swahili spoken across East Africa, with variations in vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. Some common dialects include Kiunguja spoken in Zanzibar and Tanzanian Swahili spoken in mainland Tanzania. Despite these differences, speakers of different dialects can generally understand each other.
There are approximately 175 languages or dialects spoken in the Philippines. These languages are grouped into different language families, with Filipino and English serving as the official languages of the country.
Some of the major dialects spoken in the Philippines include Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon (Ilonggo), Bicolano, Waray, and Kapampangan. These dialects are spoken in different regions of the Philippines and have their own unique characteristics.
The twelfth largest spoken language in the world--according to the Ethnologue--is Wu, one of the dialects of Chinese spoken largely in the south. Not accounting for dialects, the answer would be Korean.
* Cantonese * Mandarin
french british american
It's different, but it's not "so different."Dialects form with isolation (physical, cultural, or political). The dialects of Brazil are different from the dialects of Portugal, but they are still the same language.