Wiktionary:Dialekten

Dialects are regional or historic (temporal) varieties of individual languages.

See Wiktionary:Spraken and Wiktionary:Spraakfamilien for discussions of languages and of language families, respectively.

Dialectal senses, spellings, forms etc

Wiktionary uses {{context}} to label as dialectal:

1. alternative spellings:
   1. (UK) colour
   2. (US) color
2. words:
   1. (UK) anorak
3. inflected forms:
   1. (UK, _, and, _, AAVE) learnt
   2. (US) learned

Wiktionary uses {{a}} (which stands for "accent") to label pronunciations as dialectal:

1. Vörlaag:a IPA^(key): /sɝ/
2. Vörlaag:a IPA^(key): /sɜː/

Dialects in etymologies

Wiktionary uses a small number of exceptional codes to represent specific varieties of languages in etymology sections. Some may be deprecated.There is little consensus on how to code dialects in etymologies and etymological categories. Currently, Wiktionary uses codes similar to those from Webster's 1913 dictionary, and stores them in templates prefixed with etyl:.

Codes for dialects and language varieties, for etymologies

Name (Wikipedia article)	Wiktionary code	Comments
American English	Vörlaag:etyl:American English (Vörlaag:etyl:AE.)
Anglo-Frisian	Vörlaag:etyl:Anglo-Frisian (Vörlaag:etyl:AFr.)
Austrian German	Vörlaag:etyl:Austrian German (Vörlaag:etyl:AG.)
Ecclesiastical Latin	Vörlaag:etyl:Ecclesiastical Latin (Vörlaag:etyl:EL.)
Koine (Greek)	Vörlaag:etyl:Koine
Late Latin	Vörlaag:etyl:Late Latin (Vörlaag:etyl:LL, Vörlaag:etyl:LL.)
Mediaeval Latin	Vörlaag:etyl:Medieval Latin (Vörlaag:etyl:ML, Vörlaag:etyl:ML.)
New Latin	Vörlaag:etyl:New Latin (Vörlaag:etyl:NL.)
Old Latin	Vörlaag:etyl:Old Latin (Vörlaag:etyl:OL.)
Old Northern French	Vörlaag:etyl:Old Northern French (Vörlaag:etyl:ONF., Vörlaag:etyl:Old North French)
Provençal	Vörlaag:etyl:prv	In 2007, Provençal's prv was merged by ISO 639-3 into oci (Vörlaag:oci)
Shanghainese	Vörlaag:etyl:Sha. (Shanghainese)
Viennese German	Vörlaag:etyl:Viennese German (Vörlaag:etyl:VG.)
Vulgar Latin	Vörlaag:etyl:Vulgar Latin (Vörlaag:etyl:VL.)

See also

• Wiktionary:Sprakenfamilien
• Wiktionary:Spraken