Questions tagged [dialect]

For questions about a form of a language that is spoken in a particular part of a country or by a particular group of people .

The term dialect is used in two ways:

  1. To refer to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers.
  2. To refer to a language that is socially subordinated to a regional standard language.

A language is a dialect with an army and navy. -Max Weinreich

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Which Kurdish dialect is the most understandable across the entire Kurdish population?

The Kurdish population is spread across several countries, including Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, among others. There are multiple dialects, as well. If someone wanted to study a single Kurdish dialect with the purpose of communicating with Kurds…
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