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.
How many different types of linguistic phenomena is the term dialect used to describe?
two
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