What is the differences between language and dialect?

Answer 1

Language is a form of communication. English, Korean, Spanish, French, and German are all languages people use to communicate with each other. Dialects are the different pronounciations of words in languages, as well as different usages of words and phrases.

A dialect is a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers.

For example, in North America, there are Many dialects and sub-dialects: New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southern, Midwestern, Upper Midwestern, Western, Northwestern, Californian, Hawaiian, etc.

Answer 2

Language is a broader system of communication with distinct grammar and vocabulary, often associated with a specific region or country. Dialect refers to variations within a language, including differences in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary within a specific group or region. Essentially, a dialect is a subset of a language that may have distinct features but is still mutually intelligible with other dialects of the same language.

Answer 3

Dialect is the type of words people use; for instance southern and northern Americans dialects are very different. Southerners say "howdy" northerners say "hi."

Language is a vernacular that each country has. For example Mexicans speak Spanish, and Frenchman speak French.

Answer:

The difference between dialect and language is one of those slippery areas that linguists love to slide around in, setting up rules and writing lengthy treatises. Obviously there are languages which are so separate that their origins come from the autochthonous peoples of the area (Chinese: Latin: Native American) others can trace their roots back through the years in language trees linking them (Sumerian --> Latin--> French)

We'll talk about this second group first.

To most linguists, a dialect is a location specific variant of a language (French Canadian French is a dialect of Parisian French) which maintains many ties to the "parent" even though it may have local grammatical constructions and vocabulary different from the "parent". They see this as different from French being a dialect of Latin (from which it was derived) as the two languages are not mutually understood by speakers of the other (let's not worry about Norse and Swedish which are viewed as separate languages but are mutually comprehensible) and exhibit the trait of being used by nations as their formal tongue.

At this point we should discuss accents and dialects. Local pronunciation, a few "local" phrases but a similar grammatical structure mark accents in a language or dialect. Everything is pretty much the same.

Now for the first group mentioned - languages that originated independently.

These may have their dialects and related languages (Related Languages: Japanese and Korean, Dialects: Mandarin and Cantonese) but they also feature fusion ways of speaking that allow people to trade and do business. These are the creoles or pidgin languages which borrow heavily from both parent tongues, sometimes words sometimes grammar. These pidgins usually do not have a lot of use in writing and formal communication but are communication tools developed for trade purposes.