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dialect

geographically- or socially-determined language variety
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Summary

dialect is a languoid class[1]. dialect draws 7,972 Wikipedia views per month (languoid class category, ranking #3 of 23).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: language variety[3], lect[4], idiom[5]
  • Part of: supradialect[6]
  • Commons category: Dialects[7]
  • Said to be the same as: subdialect[8]
  • Has part(s): subdialect[9], dialectism[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Dialects[11]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of Linguistics[12], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], Soziolinguistika Hiztegia[15]
  • Main Wikidata property: P4913[16]
  • Different from: vernacular[17], regional language[18]
  • Studied by: linguistics[19], dialectology[20], sociolinguistics[21]
  • Exact match: https://ontology.londisizwe.org/mola#Dialect[22]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q20610554[23], Q13176372[24]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25]

Why It Matters

dialect has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] dialect is known by 89 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

dialectology linguistics sociolinguistics

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). dialect. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/dialect
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_dialect_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{dialect}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/dialect}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 2466, 5038, 3161
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 3161, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7328412|Dialect (#7328412)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 2466, 5038, 3161
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 5038, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7330072|dialect (#7330072)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 2466, 5038, 3161
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 5166
    Sitelink count → 141
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'av', 'az', 'ba', 'bar', 'bat_smg'
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 2466, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327782|dialect (#7327782)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  4. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → dialects
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: dialects, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289919554|dialects (#289919554)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003045-dialekty
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003045-dialekty, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → vernacular, regional language
    Subclass of → language variety, lect, idiom
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 7381, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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