Subdialect (from Latin , "under", and
Ancient Greek , "discourse") is a
linguistic term designating a
dialectological Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , ''-logia'') is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their assoc ...
category between the levels of
dialect and
idiolect
Idiolect is an individual's unique use of language, including speech. This unique usage encompasses vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. This differs from a dialect, a common set of linguistic characteristics shared among a group of people.
Th ...
. Subdialects are basic subdivisions of a dialect.
Definition of Subdialect by Merriam-Webster
/ref> Subdialects can be divided further, ultimately down to idiolects. Normally subdialects of one dialect are quite close to each other, differing mainly in pronunciation and certain local words.
See also
* Accent (dialect)
* Variety (linguistics)
* Language cluster
* Dubrovnik subdialect
* Laško subdialect
* Lwów subdialect
The Lwów dialect ( pl, gwara lwowska, ua, Львівська говірка, translit=L’vivs’ka hovirka) is a subdialect (''gwara'') of the Polish language characteristic of the inhabitants of the city of Lviv ( pl, Lwów, uk, Львів), ...
* Supradialect
Supradialect (from Latin , "above", and Ancient Greek , "discourse") is a linguistic term designating a dialectological category between the levels of language and dialect. It is used in two distinctive contexts, describing structural or funct ...
Reference
Literature
* Joseph R. Applegate, "Phonological Rules of a Subdialect of English", Word, vol. 17/2 (1961), p. 186-193.
* Asta Leskauskaite, "The Periphery Subdialects of Southwestern Lithuania and the Slavic Languages", Acta Baltico-Slavica, 30 (2006), p. 391-402.
Dialects
Language varieties and styles
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