Language Variations and Dialect

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Language Variations and Dialect

• By Hunter Anderson

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Dialect

• A dialect is usually a variety in any given
  language.
• Usually affected by an area or region, or even a
  social class.
• Usually described or determined by grammar,
  vocabulary, and placement of words within a
  sentence.
• Even within English, there are different
  dialects, all of which are between the different
  states.

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Variations

• Along with Dialect, language variation is often
  common in different areas, different countries,
  etc.
• Typically categorized by pronunciation, word
  placement, sound, accents, etc.
• Within many countries with a shared language
  there are many different variations, for example
  American English, British English, Australian
  English, and so on.

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Variation and Dialect in Translation

• In many languages, many words have different
  meanings and translation, and due to these
  translations, dialect can be greatly affected,
  for example, the English translation of the ad to
  the right. Much of this ad makes no logical
  sense, but in the original translation, the
  people reading it would understand it completely,
  and although English is an international
  language, many places still have trouble
  translating and understanding. Also, in many
  languages there arent certain English letters in
  the natives alphabet, for example the letter H
  doesnt have a translation into the Russian
  alphabet, and in many countries, certain letters
  may be swapped out for others, thus making the
  different dialects and variations hard to
  understand.

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Works Cited

• No Electrical Healthy Of Flashlight ad
  http//www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/04
  /no-electrical-healthy-of-flashlight.jpg
• www.wordiq.com/definition/Dialect
• http//www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/docs/pdfs/walt/Lan
  guage_variation-sgl.pdf