Sociolinguistics 3, Exercise 1: dialectal or sociolectal? soda / pop / coke dialectal: they vary by region of the United States (the page says dialectal, not sociolectal). Tamil tanni / tirrto sociolectal: the Mudaliyar and Iyengar differ by caste (a social group), not by region. Bokmal vs Ranamal the page says these differences are not sociolectal per se: they differ in pronunciation and morphology between a standard and a local variety. Source: Wikipedia, Sociolect. The distinction: dialects are tied to geography; sociolects to class, age, gender or ethnicity.