Dialect /(?)/

Di·a·lect

Dialect

n.
  1. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
    This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world.
  2. The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
    In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language.
    — Earle.
    [Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect.