What is a Prestige Dialect?
A prestige dialect is a dialect spoken by people with the most prestige in a language community. The term “language community” is used to classify groups of people who speak a single language and its closely related dialects. For example, Britons are all part of the same language community, because they all speak English. Someone who speaks a prestige dialect is perceived to be of a higher social class than people who speak other dialects.
