This paper, which is divided into several parts, examines children's language acquisition between standards and languages. Children start learning the language of their environment from an early age, most often one of the organic (natural, original) language idioms. They start using the standard language, as an inorganic idiom agreed upon for communication purposes, only when they enter elementary school, that is, when they begin systematic education. Likewise, children who grow up in the area where the Croatian language is spoken, first adopt one of its dialects, belonging to the Chakavian, Kajkavian or Štokavian dialects, and then systematically master the standard Croatian language at school. The modern circumstances of communication in a dynamic and networked world, as well as intensive migrations, make organic idioms rapidly change and even disappear, under the strong influence of standard language, jargon, and other languages in contact. This is also the case with the dialect of the island of Vis, which today fewer and fewer young speakers use. The aim of this paper was to investigate the level of familiarity of preschool children in the city of Vis with the Vis dialect. In addition, the goal was to examine whether children use Više speech in everyday communication. As the context of the research topic, the language development of children up to school age is described and speech is presented as a fundamental means of communication. It is the task of educators to encourage harmonious children's language development, introducing children to the mastery of the standard language and nurturing non-standard language expression, but also not neglecting the local linguistic identity, i.e. the native language used by the children. The activities that were carried out in the Kindergarten in Vis for the purpose of writing this paper aimed to introduce the children to the Vis language as part of the local identity and to investigate the children's knowledge of that language at the lexical level. The results of the research showed, as expected, that children use a combination of the Croatian standard language and the dialect of the island of Vis in their daily communication. At the same time, when it comes to the lexical segment, words from the Croatian standard language were used more than from the dialect.