dialects

In Arabic language different dialects/variations have different punctuations and pronunciations which changes how a word is pronounced but not what the word is or what it means.

If the United Kingdom made all the movies, everyone would think American dialects are really hard to understand.

And local dialects are anything but unusual, they appear even in not so isolated regions of small european countries.

There's The Evolution of Lisp [1], which talks about the entwined relationship of many of the different dialects of lisp.

I would also like to point out amongst Muslims there is a concept of multiple Qira'aat(readings) where there are multiple dialects in which the Quran is read.

North Korean and South Korean are completely different dialects, with different orthography and spelling.

In the 1990's, dialects of C that had // comments were C++, various dialects accepted by C compilers having // comments as a nonconforming extension over C90, and C compilers supporting draft ISO C features.

Clojurescript is a Lisp with dynamic typing, Elm/Purescript are ML dialects where (static) typing is much more important, in Purescript more so than Elm.

I love reading about how language evolves - I've heard of similar isolated dialects of Spanish in very rural New Mexico.

Great feedback:) languages and dialects are a part of our strategy.

And nobody managed to replace C and dialects with something else.

So I took that as some evidence that not all English dialects are mutually intelligible.

Changing dialects just for the sake of comments is silly; the right choice will usually be "don't use those comments".

Calling both Mandarin and Cantonese "dialects of Chinese" is simply a matter of the politics of China denying linguistic reality.

As several of the comments say, distinguishing different varieties of speech as "dialects" rather than "languages" is often a matter of politics rather than a matter of linguistics.

Many other examples of words, phrases, and whole sentences that are essentially unreadable to persons who have learned only Modern Standard Chinese can be found in texts produced in Chinese characters by speakers of other Sinitic languages ("Chinese dialects").