nonstandard dialect

English

Noun

nonstandard dialect (plural nonstandard dialects)

  1. (sociolinguistics) Any spoken variety of a language that deviates from the socially dominant or prestigious dialect.
    Synonym: vernacular dialect
    Antonym: standard dialect
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