The only thing that kept us out of prison was the way he spoke the local dialect.
The same meaning sentence is: "But for his command of the local dialect, we could have been jailed."
However, I don't see the same meaning between "spoke" and "command".
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When you say that someone has 'command' of something it means they are completely in control of it. Therefore, it means he spoke the local dialect fluently.
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"Command" in this case means mastery or ability to use. His command of the local dialect is the (good) way in which he speaks the local dialect.
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