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All Dialects and Varieties

Regional and social varieties of a language rather than the language itself: the dialects, accents and named local forms this atlas records as distinct from, but descended from, a parent language entity. Grouped into five bands by that parent language, English, Spanish, German and French each carrying its own band, with a fifth Other band for parent languages, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese and Swedish among them, currently represented by a single live dialect entity apiece. A dialect or variety is placed by its own live Descends From relationship to its parent language, an axis already present in this atlas's graph rather than assigned by hand.

All Dialects and Varieties
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Acadian French

French Dialects and Varieties

African American Vernacular English

English Dialects and Varieties

Andalusian Spanish

Spanish Dialects and Varieties

Angolan Portuguese

Other Dialects and Varieties

Australian English

English Dialects and Varieties

Austrian German

German Dialects and Varieties

Awadhi

Other Dialects and Varieties

Bavarian German

German Dialects and Varieties

Beijing Mandarin

Other Dialects and Varieties

Belgian French

French Dialects and Varieties

Berlin German

German Dialects and Varieties

Brabantian

Other Dialects and Varieties

Braj Bhasha

Other Dialects and Varieties

Brazilian Portuguese

Other Dialects and Varieties

Cajun French

French Dialects and Varieties

Calabrian Dialects

Other Dialects and Varieties

Canadian English

English Dialects and Varieties

Canarian Spanish

Spanish Dialects and Varieties

Caribbean Spanish

Spanish Dialects and Varieties

Central Russian Dialects

Other Dialects and Varieties

Chilean Spanish

Spanish Dialects and Varieties

Chungcheong Dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Cockney

English Dialects and Varieties

Colombian Spanish

Spanish Dialects and Varieties

Creole Language

Other Dialects and Varieties

East Franconian German

German Dialects and Varieties

Ethnolect

Other Dialects and Varieties

European Portuguese

Other Dialects and Varieties

Flemish

Other Dialects and Varieties

Geordie

English Dialects and Varieties

Gulf Arabic

Other Dialects and Varieties

Gyeongsang Dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Hamgyong Dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Haryanvi

Other Dialects and Varieties

Hejazi Arabic

Other Dialects and Varieties

Hiberno-English

English Dialects and Varieties

Indian English

English Dialects and Varieties

Iraqi Arabic

Other Dialects and Varieties

Jamaican Patois

English Dialects and Varieties

Jeolla Dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Jianghuai Mandarin

Other Dialects and Varieties

Kansai Dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Kyushu Dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Ligurian

Other Dialects and Varieties

Lombard

Other Dialects and Varieties

Low German

German Dialects and Varieties

Maghrebi Arabic

Other Dialects and Varieties

Mexican Spanish

Spanish Dialects and Varieties

Moroccan Arabic

Other Dialects and Varieties

Najdi Arabic

Other Dialects and Varieties

Neapolitan

Other Dialects and Varieties

New Zealand English

English Dialects and Varieties

Newfoundland English

English Dialects and Varieties

Nigerian English

English Dialects and Varieties

Northeastern Mandarin

Other Dialects and Varieties

Northern Russian dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Peruvian Spanish

Spanish Dialects and Varieties

Pidgin

Other Dialects and Varieties

Piedmontese

Other Dialects and Varieties

Pyongan Dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Quebec French

French Dialects and Varieties

Rajasthani

Other Dialects and Varieties

Received Pronunciation

English Dialects and Varieties

Regional Dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Register (Sociolinguistics)

Other Dialects and Varieties

Rioplatense Spanish

Spanish Dialects and Varieties

Scanian

Other Dialects and Varieties

Scottish English

English Dialects and Varieties

Scouse

English Dialects and Varieties

Sicilian

Other Dialects and Varieties

Singlish

English Dialects and Varieties

Sociolect

Other Dialects and Varieties

South African English

English Dialects and Varieties

Southern American English

English Dialects and Varieties

Southern Russian dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Southwestern Mandarin

Other Dialects and Varieties

Swabian German

German Dialects and Varieties

Swiss French

French Dialects and Varieties

Swiss German

German Dialects and Varieties

Taiwanese Mandarin

Other Dialects and Varieties

Tohoku Dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Tunisian Arabic

Other Dialects and Varieties

Tuscan Dialect

Other Dialects and Varieties

Upper Saxon German

German Dialects and Varieties

Venetian

Other Dialects and Varieties

Venezuelan Spanish

Spanish Dialects and Varieties

Welsh English

English Dialects and Varieties

Yemeni Arabic

Other Dialects and Varieties

Yorkshire Dialect

English Dialects and Varieties
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