Dialect
The term dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos, from the ancient Greek word dialektos dialektos, "discourse", from dia dia, "through" and lego lego, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.
What language is the word dialectus from?
Latin
The term dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos, from the ancient Greek word dialektos dialektos, "discourse", from dia dia, "through" and lego lego, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.
Dialect