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Dialects - How Americans Talk









By: Ceslie Fernandez

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In the world there are between 6,000 and 7,000 different languages. The number of dialects is much higher. In each place, in each region, there are differences in pronunciation, construction, and also lexical differences. So, the same language has a different meaning in each of the places where it is spoken; these geographical variants are called dialects. And there are also geographical variants -dialects- of  Nahuatl, Maya, Otomi, Quechua, attending to the different places where they are spoken. The dialects are always related to a clear geographical demarcation. They are part of the regional varieties of a language. So the dialects are the linguistic systems with less coverage. As a general rule, dialects are only spoken, they are not written. They form a linguistic system of their own. And they follow their own rules. In addition, any language can have numerous dialects. All dialects are subsumed in the standard language. The standard language is that which the members of a ...
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It is hard to know how many languages exist all over the world and how many dialects the English language has. It is also not easy to draw a distinction between dialects and languages on linguistic grounds because they reflect the way their speakers were taught to speak and write. We need to be aware that languages and dialects are fundamentally social and they depend of the region they are spoken in and they are not a linguistic matter as people sometimes think they are. The English language has many dialects, the most known ones are the regional and social ones. The regional dialect is associated with a place and talks about where we come from and the social dialect says who we are. They are both concerned of the variation in a language. The style depends on the range of the situation from informal, social context, relationships, sex, age, among others. The important of social factors is crucial because they decide what counts as a language or dialect. Pronunciation, gramma...
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Since we are born, we start a learning process, and the very first thing we learn, is speaking. Learning a language includes many factors, they can be socioeconomic, religion, ethnic, age and also genre. Dialects are rule by these factors as well. Without realizing everybody is affected by them. Learning about dialects let us know, how our environment of our surrounding affected our way to express ourselves. As well as teach us why there are differences in other societies.  There are 20 countries all over the world that speak Spanish and 67 nations that speak English. For sure we can say that each of those nations have their own speak and even more impressive, inside those nations we can also say there are tons of dialects spoken in each area. Dialects are the very own way to show ourselves to other region. The differences can vary from phonological differences to syntactic ones in the same area.  Human are unique and the way that each person in this world speak is unique ...
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