Thus, the word Pashto represents a southwestern dialect form (paštō), in contrast to a northeastern (paxtō).
The Chinese source is the word tai fung is cited as being a common dialect form of Mandarin dà, meaning "big", and Mandarin fēng, meaning "wind".
A recent poem, "Interlude: Thought Provoking Matter," suggests the almost minatory allure of grammatical tangles: Middle English gramarye, grammar, or book-learning, came to mean occult or magical lore, and through one Scottish dialect form has emerged in our present English as "glamor".
For instance, the contrast between the local dialect form "소내기" (sonaegi) and the standard "소나기" (sonagi, meaning "rainshower"), has been seen as reflecting the ancient phonemic character of the Silla language.
Either the resulting dialect is that of the original homeland of a particular migrating population, or it is a dialect mixture formed by the leveling of differences between migrants from more than one homeland.
Such popular poems often contain dialect forms, and the metres differ from the classical quantitative system.
Since the 1940s Ladin has been taught in primary schools in the Gardena and Badia valleys, in different conventionalized dialect forms.
Overseas (e.g., in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina) speakers sometimes do not know the standard language and use only dialect forms.
Swiss literature, properly, the writings in the only language peculiar to Switzerland, the Rhaeto-Romanic dialect known as Romansh, though broadly it includes all works written by Swiss nationals in any of the three other languages of their country: German, French, and Italian, or the Swiss dialect forms of any one of them.
Results of the High German consonant shift p- pound Pfund pp apple Apfel Vp** hope hoffen t- ten zehn tt sitting sitzen Vr ** bite beissen k- can khann* kk lick lekchen* Vk ** make machen *Khann and lekchen, with affricates, are southern dialect forms; Standard German has stops: kann, lecken.
