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MEANING OF DIALECT

Geography dictionary
A variant of a language, which depends not only on vocabulary but also on grammar, syntax, and pronunciation. Dialectology is the study of social and linguistic variations within a language; dialect geography is the study of local differentiations in a speech area; and dialectometry is an objective method of determining the degree of difference between geographical variations in dialects, especially lexical differences.

Literary dictionary
dialect, a distinctive variety of a language, spoken by members of an identifiable regional group, nation, or social class. Dialects differ from one another in pronunciation, vocabulary, and (often) in grammar. Traditionally they have been regarded as variations from a ‘standard’ educated form of the language, but modern linguists point out that standard forms are themselves dialects which have come to predominate for social and political reasons. The study of variations between different dialects is known as dialectology.

Columbia Encyclopedia
dialect, variety of a language used by a group of speakers within a particular speech community. Every individual speaks a variety of his language, termed an idiolect. Dialects are groups of idiolects with a common core of similarities in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Dialects exist as a continuum in which adjacent dialects are mutually intelligible, yet with increasing isolation between noncontiguous dialects, differences may accumulate to the point of mutual unintelligibility. For example, in the Dutch-German speech community there is a continuous area of intelligibility from Flanders to Schleswig and to Styria, but with Flemish and Styrian dialects mutually unintelligible. Adjacent dialects usually differ more in pronunciation than in grammar or vocabulary. When a dialect is spoken by a large group of speakers of a language, it often acquires prestige, which leads to the development of a standard language. Some countries have an official standard, such as that promoted by the French Academy. The first linguistic dialectology focused on historical dialects, written texts serving as the basis for establishing the dialects of a language through the methods of comparative linguistics.
The methods of modern linguistic geography began in late 19th-century Europe with the use of informants rather than texts, and resulted in the first linguistic atlases of France, by Jules GilliƩron, and of Germany, by Georg Wenker. Those techniques were refined in the United States in the preparation of the Linguistic Atlas of the United States (Hans Kurath et al., ed.) and its derivative works. In recent years linguists have become increasingly interested in social dialects, such as the languages of social groups within an urban population and the languages of specific occupations (farmers, dockworkers, coal miners, government workers) or lifestyles (beatniks, drug users, teenagers, feminists). In the United States much work has been done in the area of black English, the common dialect of many African Americans. See also slang.

For example
"wat lolok" means "just kidding"...a very popular phrase used when you're not seriously answering someone who is asking you what are you doing.
Origin:
Probably from the phrase "buat lawak" or simply originates from Siamese language.

Example:
Q: Wat gapo/ wat gedio/ wat nate gapo weh??
A: " wat lolok..!!"
As opposed to what people commonly used.
Q: buat ape/ buat mende/tengah buat ape tu..??
A: tiada apa-apa..!!

Bibliography

See H. Orton and E. Dieth, ed., Survey of English DialectsReadings in American Dialectology (1971); R. H. Bentley and S. D. Crawford, ed., Black Language Reader (1973); H. Kurath, Studies in Area LinguisticsDialects in Contact (1986); C. M. Carver, American Regional Dialects (1973); P. Trudgill, (1962-70); H. B. Allen and G. Underwood, (1987).

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DIAGRAM

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1. HARD PALATE
The intraction between the tongue and the hard palate is essential in the formation of certain
speech sounds, notabh [t], [d], [j].

2. SOFT PALATE
Can be used as a palate articulation just like the other part of the roof of the mouth described
in this section. Sounds made with the back of the tongue againt the soft palate are called vellar.

3. UVULAR
The velum ends in a lump of flesh caked the uvula. It is quite possible to see this organ (which
does indeed look something like a little pink grape) and to make it vibrate, so producing a
uvular trill.

4. ALVEOLAR RIDGE
An alveolar ridge Calso known as the alveolar margin is are the two Jaw Ridges cither on the
roof on the mouth between the upper teeth and the hard palate or on the bottom of the
mouth behind the lowerteeth. the alveolar Ridges contain the sockets
(alveoli) of the teeth. They can be fect with the tongue in the area right above the top teeth or
below the bottom teeth. It's surface is covered with little Ridges. Sounds made with the
tongue touching the alveolar Ridges while speaking are caked alveolar. Examples of alveolar
consonants in English are for instance [t], [d], [s], [z], [n], [l] like in the words time, dragon,
superman, zeal, nasty, and lollipop. There are exeptions to this. However such as speakers of
the New York accent who pronounce [t], [d], [n], or nearly touches [s], [z] the upper alveolar
Ridges which can also be reterred to as gum Ridge in many other languanges these same
consonants are articulated slightly differently and are often described as dental consonants in
mart languanges consonant are articulated with the tongue touching or close to the upper
alveolar Ridge. The former are called alveolar plosives and the latter alveolar fricatives.

5. NASAL CAVITY
10 cm from pharynx to nostrils. Divided into two passages by the septum( cartilaginous
structure from nostril to skull). Three lateral bony protrusions(conchae), creating three
passages on each side.

EXPLAINATION ABOUT KELANTANESE DIALECT CONSONANTS

1. Which ended with the consonant [ t ], namely explosive teeth gum will change to a voiceless stops glottis [ ] in the dialect of Kelantan.

Example :

2. In English language that ends with the consonant [ n ], the consonant-nasal tooth gum will change to [] the nasal soft palate in kelantan’s dialect.

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3. Words that start with consonants-dental voiceless lips of [ f ] will be transformed into bilabial explosive consonant voiceless [ p ] in kelantan’s dialect.

Example :

4. Which ended with the consonant [ s ], the friction teeth-gums will be published as a voiceless sound friction glottal [ h ] in the dialect of Kelantan.

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EXPLAINATION ABOUT KELANTANESE DIALECT VOWEL

1. Semi-high back vowel [ o ] will change to the rear half of low vowels [ ] and also can be changed to the high back vowel [ u ] in the dialect of Kelantan.

Example :


2. Semi-high front vowel [ e ] will be a schwa [ ] and also can be semi-low front vowel

[ ] in the dialect of Kelantan.

3. Lateral consonants not rub the tooth-gum is voiceless [ l ] will be a low front vowel [ a ] and also can be changed to the lower half of the front vowel [ ] in the dialect of Kelantan.

Example :

4. Semi-high front vowel [ e ] will be a low front vowel [ a ] in the dialect of Kelantan.

Example :

5. Vowel phoneme which is present in the second half of the front high vowel [ e ] speech or semi-high back vowel [ o ] speech in kelantan’s dialect.

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