Solutions A spoken local language or dialect has 9 entries with similar clues

• 3-letter words
• laoLanguage spoken in Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle
• 5-letter words
• latinA language no longer spoken
• 6-letter words
• patoisThe local dialect of a region
• pashtoLanguage spoken in Afghanistan
• 7-letter words
• catalanLanguage spoken in Spain
• yiddishLanguage spoken by Ashkenazi Jews
• englishThe world's most spoken language
• 8-letter words
• armenianLanguage spoken in Yerevan
• 9-letter words
• languedocgroup of medieval french dialects spoken south of the loire also called occitan