Language pronunciation {dialect}| depends on social class and geographic region.
Irish and Scottish English have dialects {brogue}|.
Individuals have language {idiolect}.
Close-knit groups in closed areas surrounded by larger areas can use dialects {koine}.
Colonists and settlers can use home-country language {mother tongue}.
Languages {patois}| can be local dialects.
Regions have local dialects {provincialism}.
Communities have languages {sociolect}.
Educated people use formal language {standard language}.
Language {King's English} can be exact, standardized English.
Groups can use language {nonstandard language} in informal ways.
Simplified colonizer languages {creole}| become trade or contact languages and can become the only colony language.
Speakers of several languages can use mixed language {lingua franca}| in shared geographic region. Italian, with some Arabic and Greek, was in Mediterranean area.
Contact vernaculars {lingua general brazilica} can be in Brazil.
Style {High} can be from highlands or be a literary form.
Style {Low} can be from lowlands or after higher "Golden Age".
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