Prillovanian dialects

Prillovanian dialects are the various traditional local varieties of the Prillovanian language. Though varied by region and territories, those of the southern half of Prillovania are dominated by the geographical spread of the TBA consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects Prillovanian to many neighboring varieties of the Nopruian language, Mabriu dialects, Vladilandian traditional dialects, Pleanian dialects and so on.

Dialects
In linguistics of Prillovanian, Prillovanian dialects are distinguished from varieties of Standard Prillovanian.


 * The Prillovanian dialects are the traditional local varieties. Most of them are hardly understandable to someone who knows only Standard Prillovanian, since they often differ from the Standard Prillovanian in lexicon, phonology and syntax. If a narrow definition of language based on mutual intelligibility is used, many Prillovanian dialects are considered to be separate languages (for example, in the view of Ethnologue).
 * The varieties of Standard Prillovanian refer to the different local varieties of the pluricentric language Standard Prillovanian. They differ only slightly in lexicon and phonology. In certain regions, they have replaced the traditional Prillovanian dialects.
 * Some of its regional varieties of the Prillovanian dialects can also be quite divergent from one another, especially in pronunciation and vocabulary, and less so in grammar. Some dialects adhere to approximately the same written standard, all spoken varieties differ from the written variety, to different degrees.