Sentence examples for African dialect from inspiring English sources

Her first name, she said, means "astounding woman" in an African dialect.

The term kwashiorkor means "deposed child" ("deposed" from the mother's breast by a newborn sibling) in one African dialect and "red boy" in another dialect.

A report sent to Cathy Arthur by the Haverfordwest County Secondary School suggested that the girls' speech could not be understood because they were speaking an "African" dialect.

Its lyrics were almost always sung in Lingala, a trading language of the Congo region and a distinct African dialect, but one that is generic and unprovincial — a sort of lingua franca with no fractious history attached.

In an African dialect, it became "oko," "oko-oko," "oko-oko-oko," and so on – so the lines kept getting longer!" Donaldson clearly owes a large debt for her success to the jolly illustrations of Axel Scheffler.

In her testimony, Ms. Rowling said Mr. Vander Ark's link between the spell and the Hawaiian "aloha" was "errant nonsense," explaining that it actually had come from West African dialect.

Mariéme uses her knowledge of African dialects and languages to facilitate communication between governments, investors, businesses and communities in Africa.

Évora sang in Kriolu, a Creole language mixing Portuguese with the west African dialects of her enslaved ancestors.

If Cura? had a soundtrack it would be Papiamentu, the island's Creole language, said to be a hybrid of Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English and West African dialects.

Most locals speak four languages: Dutch, English, Spanish and Papiamentu, which fuses the first three languages with Portuguese and African dialects.

(Latin and German, as well as African dialects, and what may well be invented languages mingle with Italian on the harshly dubbed soundtrack).