ほうげん
dialect; provincialism
What we call 'Standard English' is only one of the many dialects spoken all over the world.
・direction
・person
・alternative
・say
・word
ほうげんしゅうけんろん
center versus periphery theory
ほうげんがく
dialectology
ほうげんかんじ
dialectal kanji;kanji only used in a specific region
ほうげんれんぞくたい
dialect continuum;dialect chain
ほうげんりょう
number of dialectal versions of a word