[SUB- 7.] A subordinate dialect; a division of a dialect.
1642. Howell, For. Trav. (Arb.), 48. The French have three dialects, the Wallon … the Provensall, (whereof the Gascon is a subdialect) and the speech of Languedoc. Ibid. (c. 1645), Lett. (1650), I. 377. Yet hath she divers subdialects, as the Western and Northern English, but her chiefest is the Scotick.
1845. Proc. Philol. Soc., II. 171. With respect to the languages of Southern India not related to Sanscrit, the Tamul, of which the others are only sub-dialects, presents no direct analogy.
1862. Latham, Channel Isl. III. xix. 439. A sub-dialect of the Jersey.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., xii. 245. The variety of sub-dialects, especially of the Lesghian, is very great.
