dialectedadj.
/ˈdʌɪəlɛktᵻd/, U.S. /ˈdaɪəˌlɛktəd/ Of a language: divided into dialects; dialectal in form or character. Of a person: having or speaking a (specified) dialect.
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1650 J. Rocket Div. cut in Pieces 29 They have the cursed gifts of speaking several languages, or else that one language so variously dialected, that they could not understand one another.
1836 E. Howard Rattlin lv The..cockney-dialected Josh.
1897 G. Saintsbury Flourishing of Romance ix. 394 But for the general purpose of this book the fact of the persistence of the ‘Limousin’ tongue in Catalonia and (strongly dialected) in Valencia having been once noted, not much further notice need be taken of this division.
1972 I. Asimov Treasury Humor v. 159 English..is most spoken by those whose first language is something else, most dialected, most distorted, most mangled.
2005 Observer 14 Aug. (Review section) 7/2 For Voices, more than 300 interviews were conducted with differently dialected sets of people, from the Channel Islands to the Shetland Isles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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