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Buenas Días señoritos y señoritas! Me llamo Janel Ericka, me apellido Custodio

I’ll be the one who will tackle dialect. So what is a dialect?
• Dialect is a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation,
grammar, and/or vocabulary.
Dialects are usually formed around particular regions. However, they may also be used
within certain groups of people.

For example, in The United States, there is a particular dialect in the Southern states. Within
that Southern dialect, however, there may be subgroups who speak yet another dialect.

There are various types of dialects, the first one is the:

o Regional Dialect - also known as a regiolect or topolect. It is a variety spoken in a
particular region. If the form of speech transmitted from a parent to a child is a distinct
regional dialect, that dialect is said to be the child's vernacular.

For example, Cebuano, Hiligaynon (Ilonggo), Ilocano, and Kapampangan,

Second;
o Ethnolect- a dialect spoken by a specific ethnic group. It is generally defined as a language
variety that mark speakers as members of ethnic groups who originally used another
language or distinctive variety.

I have here 2 example:

Ibanag – An ethnic language of the Ibanag people.

Bontoc or Finalig – An indigenous language of the Bontoc people of the Mountain
Province.

Next;
o Sociolect- also known as a social dialect; it is a variety of language used by a
socioeconomic class, a profession, an age group, or any other social group.

For example, Bob Marley's hit song 'No woman, no cry' ( 1974). Although Marley was an
English speaker, linguists state that he sang in Jamaican Patois. This is a sociolect that
borrows from English and West African tongues and is often associated with the lower
rural classes.
 In Patois, Marley's song title roughly translates to 'Woman, don't cry'. However, it has long
been misunderstood by those unaware of the sociolect to mean something like 'if there's no
woman, there's no reason to cry'.
Lastly,
Idiolect- The term is etymologically related to the Greek prefix idio- (meaning "own, personal,
private, peculiar, separate, distinct") and -lect, abstracted from dialect. It is the language or
languages spoken by each individual, including speech. This unique usage encompasses
vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
One good example of idiolect is, If you are multilingual and can speak in different registers and
styles. Your idiolect comprises several languages, each with multiple registers and styles.
That’s all for my part. Adios!