Language and dialect

Language and dialect

1. Language and Dialect

2. What is a language?

3. What Is a Dialect?

4. Dialect: lexical variation  

5. Dialects. Names for soft drinks in the United State

6. Dialect: phonological variation

7. The difference between language and dialect

8. Facts about dialects • All languages consist of dialects • There are over 7,000 individual dialects spoken around the world today.  • Everyone speaks at least one dialect • Dialect differences are usually minor and dialects of a language are usually mutually intelligible • Dialects are geographically, socially, politically determined • Dialect variation is a matter of difference, not deficit. • Nonstandard dialects are “self-contained” systems, with their regular phonological and syntactic rules.

9. Interesting fact about languages

10. Thank you for your attention!