subdialect
noun
sub·di·a·lect
ˌsəb-ˈdī-ə-ˌlekt
variants
or sub-dialect
plural subdialects or sub-dialects
: a dialect of a language that is a regional subvariety of a more widely spoken dialect
Today Aleut is a single language with two main dialects, Western (Attuan and Atkan subdialects) and Eastern.—William W. Fitzburg & Aron Crowell
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