spoken dialect

collocation in English

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spoken
verb
uk
/ˈspəʊ.kən/us
/ˈspoʊ.kən/
past participle ...
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dialect
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈdaɪ.ə.lekt/us
/ˈdaɪ.ə.lekt/
a form of a language that people speak in a particular part of a country, containing some different words and ...
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(Definition ofspokenanddialectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspoken dialect

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The language used is usually associated with thespokendialectof the local area.
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The rumbling sounds of movement to supportspokendialectas a platform for literary activity were gathering around that time.
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The only thing that make them different is just theirspokendialect.
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Prior to that, there were dramas that employedspokendialectin a few parts of the drama.
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If languages were not standardized, they would break up into regional spoken dialects and end in mutual unintelligibility.
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Spoken dialects are given no respect; they are treated as substandard or as used only by uneducated people.
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Although some regional variations are apparent in written documents from this time, it is hard to know precisely the divisions between spoken dialects.
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The party emphasized that it did not oppose spoken dialects, it was having two parallel written languages which they opposed.
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He campaigned to bring changes in the curriculum and introduce spoken dialects.
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It conclusively showed that works that have undisputed literary value and are very popular could be composed in spoken dialects.
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Early evidence for these spoken dialects is known only through their influence on words and names in a more standard dialect.
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One of the chief aims was to introduce spoken dialects.
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During most of the period, the language existed in a situation of diglossia, with regional spoken dialects existing side by side with learned, archaic written forms.
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Documentation of the language of this period is scanty, making it difficult at best fully to determine the relationship between the literary language and its spoken dialects.
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