Local language variation (7)
I believe the answer is:
dialect
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">local language variation</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for dialect that I've seen before include "Local speech variant" , "type of language" , "Local language version" , "talk from the regions" , "Local idiom" .)