Dialect and Speaking

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Dialect noun - The special terms or expressions of a particular group or field.

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Speaking and dialect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Speaking" instead a noun "Dialect".

Speaking noun - The utterance of intelligible speech.

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Dialect and speaking are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dialect" instead a noun "Speaking".

Nearby Words: speak, speaker

Chrono Cross has an impressively long list of optional characters, and each has dialogue parts in his/her own dialect and speaking style, even in the game's ending.

Source: Optional Party Member
To outsiders, their way of adding words with -myaa or nyaa, being similar to the cat onomatopoeia "nyaa", made them think Nagoya dialect speakers are speaking like cats.

Source: Useful Notes / Japanese Dialects
Tomb Raider: Legend has her speaking Japanese, and the films have her speaking Mandarin, Cambodian and a Siberian dialect.

Source: Cunning Linguist

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