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The 23 pages that link to Dialects, each with the reason it gives.

• DiglossiaRelated: Diglossia often involves dialects, though its varieties can differ in other ways too.

• Language standardizationRelated: A standard is commonly based on one variety, though dialects remain diverse.

• Dialect continuumNarrower topic: A continuum links dialects; the individual varieties remain the units being compared.

• Standard languageCompared with: A standard is one dialect that has acquired institutional authority, not a dialect-free form.

• Register (sociolinguistics)Compared with: Dialect is linked chiefly to speaker groups or places, unlike register's situational association.

• World EnglishesNarrower topic: World Englishes are often analyzed as regional and social dialects.

• Creole languageCompared with: Calling a creole a dialect of its lexifier can obscure its status as a language.

• Natural languageRelated: Communities develop recognizable varieties within a language.

• AccentCompared with: An accent concerns pronunciation, while a dialect can include broader linguistic differences.

• PrescriptivismRelated: Prescriptive norms can privilege one dialect while stigmatizing others.

• PidginCompared with: A pidgin is not simply a regional or social variety of one established language.

• Common nameRelated: Different dialects can give the same organism different common names.

• DialectologyNarrower topic: Dialect is the central unit whose patterns dialectology investigates.

• Language variationRelated: Dialects bundle patterns of variation that can be associated with regions or social groups.

• Local colorRelated: Dialect is a tool of local color, but it can also stereotype the people it represents.

• GlottologRelated: Glottolog catalogs dialects alongside languages and families.

• Pluricentric languageCompared with: A national standard is not simply interchangeable with a local dialect.

• PronunciationNarrower topic: Pronunciation is one component of a broader dialect system.

• SociolectRelated: Sociolects are commonly analyzed as dialects associated with social groups.

• Elena FerranteRelated: The novels contrast standard Italian with Neapolitan speech to mark class, place, and power.

• Silent letterRelated: A letter may be silent in one pronunciation but spoken in another dialect.

• Swazi languageRelated: Regional variation exists within siSwati without necessarily constituting separate languages.

• Tristan CorbièreRelated: Regional speech and nonstandard phrasing help give his verse its abrasive local texture.