Language and dialect

2. What is a language?

3. What Is a Dialect?

4. Dialect: lexical variation

5. Dialects. Names for soft drinks in the United State

6. Dialect: phonological variation

7. The difference between language and dialect

8. Facts about dialects
 • All languages consist of dialects
 • There are over 7,000 individual dialects spoken around the world today.
 • Everyone speaks at least one dialect
 • Dialect differences are usually minor and dialects of a language are usually
mutually intelligible
 • Dialects are geographically, socially, politically determined
 • Dialect variation is a matter of difference, not deficit.
 • Nonstandard dialects are “self-contained” systems, with their regular
phonological and syntactic rules.

9. Interesting fact about languages