Do you have a Dialect?

**Benyzero** · 02-19-2020, 08:43 AM

Not really, some of my older relatives speak in west transdanubian dialect, which I probably have some hints in my speak aswell, but not as obviously.

**~~Maintenance~~** · 02-19-2020, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by Ymyyakhtakh

In Finland we have:

1. The Standard Finnish dialect (yleiskieli), which is used to write Finnish. Few people speak using it, and the ones who do sound like morons. It is an artificial dialect which was created in the 1800s as a compromise between Eastern and Western Finnish dialects. Its earliest speakers came from the educated classes, who until that point had been Swedish-speaking, so it has prosodic similarities with Swedish.
2. The "standard" Colloquial Finnish dialect (puhekieli), which was initially spoken in the Helsinki area, but which is now increasingly spoken all over Finland. It is intermediate between Standard Finnish and earlier Southern Finnish dialects.
3. Actual Finnish dialects, which existed before the development of Standard Finnish. Few people apart from the elderly speak in a dialect that is not heavily influenced by Standard Finnish or Colloquial Finnish however.

I hate the way Standard Finnish sounds so much that it's hard for me to even read anything in Finnish. I speak in pretty thick Southwestern Finnish dialect, but these days even in the small town where I'm from, young people grow up speaking in a dialect similar to the Helsinki dialect. The original dialect of my town sounds way nicer: http://scripta.kotus.fi/av/kuuntele/somero.mp3.

That can't be all the dialects though?

In Sweden there is over 100 dialects where some are even borderline their own language because its so different.

**Vojnik** · 02-19-2020, 08:59 AM

When I was in the Macedonian town of Ohrid, a barber picked up that my dialect was from another town called Bitola.

Last year whilst in Sofia, the lady tour guide at the museum asked if I was from Serbia or Macedonia because of my language. Odd that she said Serbia.

In Australia, I guess I have the standard Australian dialect/accent. But I can easily flip it and make it sound like the rural Australian country dialect/accent.

**~~itilvolga~~** · 02-19-2020, 09:31 AM

I mostly use Istanbul dialect which is formal in Turkey but sometimes i mix it with Aegean dialect especially when i go to village or when there are people who use Aegean dialect around me.

**Jana** · 02-19-2020, 09:32 AM

Yes, in Croatia we have 3 main dialects and many sub-dialects. Here is a map of them.

I speak standard (literally) Croatian only, no dialect. My city is known for this. Suburbs and countryside surrounding it where native North Adriatic Croats live all speak their own dialect.

**renaissance12** · 02-19-2020, 09:32 AM

Veneto - Italiano - English

Carega = sedia = chair
Tambarare = manomettere = to tamper
Criar = piangere = to cry
Picar su = raccogliere = to pick up
Goto = bicchiere = glass
Schei = soldi/moneta = money
Lisarde = lucertole = lizard
cruoto = rospo = frog
strucare = premere = to push
moke = scherzare = to moke
Periolo = imbuto = funnel
Petar xo = cadere = falling

**Jana** · 02-19-2020, 09:35 AM

Further division of local dialect (north Čakavian) in my region. We have hundreds of micro-local speeches (every village almost), and each of them is unique.

**~~Maintenance~~** · 02-19-2020, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by Feiichy

Further division of local dialect (north Čakavian) in my region. We have hundreds of micro-local speeches (every village almost), and each of them is unique.

Yea Sweden has region dialects aswell, there is 6 landscape dialect families, i read that there is over 2000 dialects and its impossible to know how many there is.

Kinda crazy