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Meaning of "multidialectal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MULTIDIALECTAL

multidialectal  [ˌmʌltɪˌdaɪəˈlektəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MULTIDIALECTAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Multidialectal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MULTIDIALECTAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of multidialectal in the English dictionary

The definition of multidialectal in the dictionary is encompassing or involving several dialects; able to speak several dialects.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MULTIDIALECTAL


anorectal
ˌeɪnəʊˈrɛktəl
bidialectal
ˌbaɪdaɪəˈlɛktəl
colorectal
ˌkəʊləʊˈrɛktəl
dialectal
ˌdaɪəˈlektəl
ductal
ˈdʌktəl
edictal
ˈiːdɪktəl
fractal
ˈfræktəl
ictal
ˈɪktəl
idiolectal
ˌɪdɪəˈlektəl
interdialectal
ˌɪntəˌdaɪəˈlektəl
notonectal
ˌnəʊtəʊˈnɛktəl
octal
ˈɒktəl
oviductal
ˌəʊvɪˈdʌktəl
prerectal
priːˈrektəl
proctal
prɒktəl
rectal
ˈrɛktəl
retinotectal
ˌrɛtɪnəʊˈtɛktəl
rictal
ˈrɪktəl
tectal
ˈtɛktəl
tridactyl
traɪˈdæktəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MULTIDIALECTAL

multiculti
multicultural
multiculturalism
multiculturalist
multicurrency
multicuspid
multicuspidate
multicycle
multiday
multidentate
multidigitate
multidimensional
multidirectional
multidisc
multidisciplinary
multidiscipline
multidivisional
multidomain
multidrug
multielectrode

WORDS THAT END LIKE MULTIDIALECTAL

brutal
capital
Continental
crystal
dental
digital
environmental
experimental
fundamental
horizontal
hospital
incremental
mental
metal
oriental
portal
postal
rental
total
vital

Synonyms and antonyms of multidialectal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «multidialectal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MULTIDIALECTAL

Find out the translation of multidialectal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of multidialectal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «multidialectal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

multidialectal
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

multidialectal
570 millions of speakers

English

multidialectal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

multidialectal
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

multidialectal
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

multidialectal
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

multidialectal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

multidialectal
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

multidialectal
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Multidialektal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

multidialectal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

multidialectal
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

multidialectal
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Multidialectal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

multidialectal
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

multidialectal
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मल्टीडीयलक्टल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

multidialectal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

multidialectal
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

multidialectal
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

multidialectal
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

multidialectal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

multidialectal
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

multidialectal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

multidialectal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

multidialectal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of multidialectal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MULTIDIALECTAL»

The term «multidialectal» is barely ever used and occupies the 209.264 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MULTIDIALECTAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about multidialectal

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MULTIDIALECTAL»

Discover the use of multidialectal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to multidialectal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention to Practice
These were: multilingual, multidialectal, Standard American English most of the time, and nonstandard American English. Comparisons were made within demographic groups to ascertain which particular group within a demographic set ...
Geneva Smitherman, Victor Villanueva, 2003
2
Continua of Biliteracy: An Ecological Framework for ...
Zentella documents how this dynamic affects the use of Spanish and English found in these heterogeneous communities, which she describes as a 'bilingual/ multidialectal repertoire, that is, a spectrum of linguistic codes that range from ...
Nancy H. Hornberger, 2003
3
Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations
To begin with, they communicate in bilingual and multidialectal ways that resist hegemonic and racist notions of language. The children who were raised on el bloque (the block) in El Barrio between 1979 and 1989 ac- quired several ...
Doris Sommer, 2003
4
Language and Intercultural Communication in the New Era
Among these are the notions of “intercultural communicative competence” (e.g., Byram 1997), “multidialectal competence” (Canagarajah 2006), “symbolic competence” (e.g., Kramsch 2006), and “metacultural competence” (Sharifian, this ...
Farzad Sharifian, Maryam Jamarani, 2013
5
Language Contact across the North Atlantic: Proceedings of ...
Such a pattern may be described as a monodialeetal code mixing strategy. At the other pole of the scale is the code switching principle, which in terms of this idealized model represents a bidialectal strategy, perhaps even a multidialectal one.
P. Sture Ureland, Iain Clarkson, 1996
6
Essentials of Language Documentation
(12) western dialect eastern dialect In the multidialectal orthography of Biliau, speakers of the eastern dialect have to write a distinction that is not present in their phonemic system and have to memorize spellings of these words (examples  ...
Jost Gippert, Nikolaus Himmelmann, Ulrike Mosel, 2006
7
Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages
Orthodox sociolinguistic research in Africa is likely to describe Africans as multidialectal, but we feel that a notion of verbal repertoire has the advantage over a notion of a multilingual/multidialectal because it is not founded upon a notion of ...
Sinfree Makoni, Alastair Pennycook, 2007
8
Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States: The ...
Although speakers in bilingual communities usually command bilingual and multidialectal linguistic repertoires, when compared with monolinguals, they are often perceived as not speaking either language well but rather as using a random ...
Sara M. Beaudrie, Marta Fairclough, 2012
9
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural ...
To be really proficient in English today, one has to be multidialectal. This does not mean that one needs production skills in all the varieties of English. One needs the capacity to negotiate diverse varieties to facilitate communication. In other ...
Jane Jackson, 2012
10
Principles and Practices for Teaching English as an ...
2 Canagarajah (2006a) points out that “to be really proficient in English today, one has to be multidialectal” (p. 233). In what ways can an English assessment be designed to capture the multidialectal nature of EIL proficiency? 3 To assess EIL ...
Lubna Alsagoff, Sandra Lee Mckay, Guangwei Hu, 2012

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Multidialectal [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/multidialectal>. May 2024 ».
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