Definition of "dialectal" [di•a•lec•tal]

• Of or relating to a dialect. (adjective)
• Not linguistically standard. (adjective)

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• "Maybe this form represented some kind of dialectal variant that I wasn't familiar with."
• "For the record, It would be a lie to say that Pa Kin (I think this is the way he spelled his name when writing in French) counts among my favorite Chinese writers (I hold Lu Xun and Lao She way above), probably because Hanye was precisely the very first Chinese book I read from the beginning to the end: I was very excited at first, because I understood everything so easily, until I had to admit that the language was very similar to that of our textbooks, too neutral, not "dialectal" enough for my taste; it's a pity, because the subject (a "modern" couple's rupture in wartime Chongqing) was worthy."
• "The Nearika (Neali'ka is a dialectal variation), however, was in part the inspiration for the later yarn paintings, what the Huichols call nearikas."