dialect

/ˈdaɪ.əˌlɛkt/

IPA: /D AY1 AH0 L EH0 K T/

noun
  1. 1

    A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.

  2. 2

    Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.

  3. 3

    A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.

  4. 4

    A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Cantonese as contrasted with Mandarin Chinese, or Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).

  5. 5

    A variant of a non-standardized programming language.

    Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.

  6. 6

    A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dialect