Does Everyone Speak In A Dialect? | Ask a Linguist

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You might think that you speak the English language, but you actually speak a dialect of English. Here are the differences between an accent, a dialect, and a language, and what it means for how we communicate with each other.

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I love using “to give out” with my non-Irish friends because they always get confused. It means to scold or punish someone and it comes from the Irish language expression “tabhair amach” which literally translates as “give out”

Gameplayerk

I ... don't have an army, so clearly I'm speaking a dialect!

hoi-polloi

Thank you for the awesome video! I would love to see more covering even more topics! There is not enough good linguistics content on YouTube!

elenir

Your comment that a dialect can signal a sense of connection and trust among members of a community particularly resonated with me. This is very evident in my high school where well over 90% of our population is comprised of students of color and within that racial identity there is a significant number of students who share a Caribbean heritage. This even spills over into various music domains such as rap. Perhaps this is one way a sense of connection, a shared understanding of one’s past, and thus a sense of trust were factors that contributed to the genesis of Ebonics.

stevencarrier

English: you are a good teacher.and i told it to you before and you know it. With you i improve my level everyday.
Me: yaz a well well teacha! N' mi told ih to yah befoo n' yah sabi ih. Wit yah mi be bettah in my levah.

oudellaabdooh

I love the videos with her! Linguistics is so interesting and I would love to see more. Thank you for making such great quality videos on these sort of topics!

katywirz

Though when you speak a language, you might also have your own grammar, as you will make "mistakes". So in a sense, the set of grammar you are using are also unique. When you communicate with someone else, you just speak to them in your version of that language in a very high mutual intelligibility.

NovajaPravda

I definitely agree about dialect being different from English.
My accent is Geordie (Newcastle).
I can tell where people grew up in the northeast of England very quickly. Even down to East Newcastle or west of Newcastle.
It’s a very interesting subject.
Dialect can change in a bus ride 😂❤️

onelove

According to the origins of the words "language", the root of the word goes back to Latin, and according to Latin, this word simply means (tongue), which in turn refers to many other meanings, as it refers to a people or a nation..etc. In short, this term meant the words of some human group. ..
I think that here we will simply understand that the problem with the distinction between "language", dialect, and accent is related to our contemporary culture, which requires placing each word in its own definition, even though the origin of the story was not like that.
By the way, I watched some videos on this subject, and they all refer to Max Weinreich as the author of this definition (language is a dialect with an army and a navy ...) and he in turn ascribes it to another person who had heard it from him .. But there are different opinions about who met this linguistic definition.

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Harua

Is American, British, indian, southasian, Pakistani English a dialects or languages please 🙏 give me answer if it is a dialect then give me reason and if it's language so also give some evidence

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